the healing power the Heart

My Healing Color Story of Expressionist Visionary Art

As I paint and draw, I transform colorful emotions into an avalanche of deep, undulating healing waves, flushing away tear-like arrays, past life relics, and abandoned cottages. 

The power of art blossoms in the heart of the beholder. You sprout seeds of wisdom with meaning, resonance, and understanding from within.

I created Garden of the Heart and the Joy's Garden Journal -- so you have your own special corner of this world to care for, and cultivate your heart.

Each painting – an ekg reading of earth-heart connection – portrays the state of blossoming within. 

The landscape of the heart responds to care and cultivation. Begin with a journal expecially designed for fertilizing the heart.

The Joy's Garden Journal

INSIDE: my structured framework for blossoming dreams, transforming emotions, and flourishing in the meadow of life. 

• Embed magic into your journaling process, with my Cascading Dreams French landscape, watermarked on each blank lined page . 
• Connecting you with soul sisters across millenia  the Three Sisters Regeneration insignia.
• The exact poems that inspired my art for 35 years frame the end pages of this journal. There's enchantment in these words ~ use them wisely!

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Over five decades three pathways of healing emerge; Sunrise Sunset, Land of Plenty, and Flourish. 

SUNRISE SUNSET series

1983 - 2026

Moving to the coastal village of Cobbs Creek in 2000, I felt inspired to begin painting again, after four fallow years following my assault. Planting my easel in the dunes of Bethel Beach Sanctuary, I matched my colors to earth and sky. This restored my heart. 

For ten years I painted earth sky and water from my vantage point, on the narrow strip of sand between inland creeks and the Chesapeake Bay. Thirty years hence, I paint the landscape within. Sunrise Sunset brings us into harmony with the daily rhythmn of the light.

Sunrise Sunset series spans over forty years, hundreds of paintings. Meet Dorothy for a private Zoom tour of this collection and discover your favorites.

Land of Plenty series

1983 - 2026

From my earliest days as an artist, I felt driven to paint undulating hills and valleys. Working in pastel, I painted in the Appalchian Mountains, pieces titled 'Mist in My Heart' and 'Resing Place.' These works always depicted tiny cottages on faraway hillsides, glinting in the light. 

Searching for reality after a traumatic assault, I discovered the landscape 'out there' mirrors the landscape within. This shifted everything. My visionary dreams came to life, as a tiny cottage came into the foreground, alongside a pond with three sentinel trees. I discovered this represented a past life which had not quite been laid to rest. The peace I felt driven to search for in each work of art was for her.

Today the series has morphed again. Now painting the present, I let symbolism emerge from dreams, daily life, and myth. 

The arc of this series spans fifty years. Explore them with Dorothy on Zoom, where you'll discover your colors. 

flourish series

2013 - 2026

Though my early 'floral' works were inspired by the landscape around my home, I painted winter. As an artist, most of my creativity lay dormant as well. 

As I began journaling, interpreting dreams, gardening, I began to grasp what it really means to be an artist. As I accepted the responsibility of creating in partnership with the creatrix, my garden began to flourish. 

Painting taught me that my soul, rather than a tiny light within, glows radiance and emanates peace for miles around me. My body resides within the soul. Connected to all beings, we flower, bloom, and prosper as one.

The Flourish series took flight when I returned from France. Explore these expressive floral abstracts with me on Zoom.