Artist Dorothy Fagan paints with her heart, not just her hand. She began painting when she was five years old, painting on the glassed-in porch of her family’s home in the woods. Today she paints en plein air, bringing the natural light and color of the raw landscape back into her glass-walled studio in the woods.

Dorothy found guidance in developing her own style in the work of Impressionist masters; Monet, Degas, Heade, Clark and Innes during a ten-year painting mentorship with Robert B. Mayo. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking and Painting from East Carolina University.

Fagan’s work has been featured on PBS and awarded honors by the Academic Artists Association, Virginia Contemporary Museum of Art and Kansas Pastel Society. Her work is collected by many including; Longwood Art Museum, City University of New York, Emory University, International Paper, AAA, Coldwell Banker, First National Exchange Bank,  and General Electric.