"Revealing a sophisticated understanding of rhythm, Dorothy Fagan orchestrates a chromatic intensity with balance and sensitivity, allowing bold hues to coexist with softer transitions in a way that feels intentional and deeply intuitive." ~ Ainhoa Fernández, curator Madrid, Spain

Dorothy Fagan is an American painter whose work emerges from a sustained, decades-long engagement with the landscapes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Fagan works from her pond landscape, creating life-size paintings that function as mirrors of an energetic, physical connection to the earth.

Using a palette knife and willow branches alongside dense impasto and charcoal drawing, her process allows gesture and material to register movement, rhythm, and flow without interruption. Drawing and painting converge as equal forces, producing surfaces that retain the trace of pressure, erosion, and renewal.