The Color Alchemist Mission
What Inspired Her New Earth Splash Scribble Flourish Healing Palette™
Coloring without lines
Release Your Creative Heart
"Instead of coloring inside the lines, we release the heart's emotional intelligence by coloring first. Then gound the energy by drawing the lines."
Experimenting with emotional color for fifty years, I discovered how to use color to regulate the nervous system, and release trauma held in the body,
"Emotional intelligence comes from the heart. When we use art to express emotional colors, we release the aquifer of energy within, co-creating structures that support us."
See Dorothy demonstrate the co-creative partnership with nature below.
The Crossing
2020 Visionary mural painting
IN THE VIDEO Dorothy Fagan speaks from her studio during the pandemic as "The Crossing" emerges in different kind of painting session. Listen as she engages in a direct conversation with the creator through sunlight and shadows patterns cast on her canvas from the woodlands outside her studio.
>WATCH THE PAINTING EMERGE Toward the end of the video, you'll see her paint all eight canvases on the floor, as she embodies the watershed.
Embody the Watershed
Art Transforms Us
Always drawn to water, I feel movement in my body as I scribble effervescence into earthy toned ground.
Beginning near the source in the 1980s, I painted in the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. I hiked, and camped, and painted trickling creeks embedded with sea fossils to gushing waterfalls -- all the while unwittingly mirroring my own inner flow.
Finding light in Darkness
After the assault, after Mom passed, after the divorce, I found myself in a very dark place. I gave all my paintings away. To stop being an artist, the silence was deafening. No clients. No friends. No identity. I disappeared.
In the darkness I discovered light.
My dreams became vivid, lucid. Sparks of light in the dark bathroom in the middle of the night, I felt my mother's presence. I began journaling, giving Faith the pen to let her speak without interruption. I then allowed Will to write though me.
I became the channel for peace in my heart.
The gift of channeling that found me in darkness stayed. After five years in darness, I began painting again. I painted en plein air, regulating my nervous system with healing colors of earth sky and water.
Decades pass as I use my art to heal. Trauma isolated me from fellow contemporary artists and I found Bethel Beach Sanctuary. Painting this narrow strip of sand between earth and sky felt like matching my heartbeat with Mother Earth.
We moved from Norfolk to a cottage on a woodland pond, footsteps from the mouth of the Piankatank River. The pond beside my studio mirrored the landscape within back to me, embodying me in the flow of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Crossing was exhibited in Milan Fashion Week 2020 at MADS Gallery in Milan, Italy.
Embody The Watershed Legacy
The Watershed Legacy Editions are published for those who desire something genuinely beautiful to inspire your family for generations to come. Explore the collection at the link below.
Healing Colors Workshop
Learn my Splash Scribble Flourish Healing Palette™ process.
I invite you to step into my virtual studio with me for private video lessons. I've recorded a short series of intimate painting demonstrations - the essence of what's really important. I'll send them to you one by one, or you can binge them all together if you wish.
This is not a painting class you have to work at!!! It's a series of private painting demonstrations with me that will open your creative heart. Each short exercise is designed to move your inner light, and give you your own co-creative role with the creatrix.
You don't have to be an artist to Splash Scribble Flourish™ your creative energy.
Splash Scribble Flourish™ MINI Class includes my New Earth Healing Palette™ painting demonstration $97 -- a $114 value -- Save $17 at the link below.
These are in a nutshell my process, my palette, and what makes co-creativity actually work.
schedule your Studio visit
See the paintings up close. I work on multiple paintings in series at once, alternating the flow of inspiration from the garden, walks around the pond through each season. Visit my studio and see what's on the easel this month.
Dorothy welcomes visitors, in person and virtual, by appointment. Schedule a studio visit with Dorothy Fagan below. (If there's a painting in particular you'd like to see during your visit, let her know when you schedule your appointment.)