Dorothy Fagan

New Earth Goddess: Beyond the Garden Wall

By The Color Alchemist Dorothy Fagan


I develop the New Earth Healing Palette™ to create life-size expressionist paintings and textiles. Facing the challenge of a lifetime: to heal the self – I use emotion to transcribe feelings into vibrant chakra colors, grounded with gritty willow charcoal drawings.

Thus, I regulate the body with earthy tones and stimulate the spirit with ethereal hues. Fusing color and charred willow on canvas, I orchestrate an alternating flow of colorful alchemical light up through the heart. To me, this is where the magic happens.

I clear stress with color–which automatically uplifts and soothes simultaneously because divine feminine light flows up from within–not the other way around.

With earth and sky colors, I mirror the landscape–feet in the sand head in the clouds. At this sacred site where woodland streams flow from their Appalachian source — through my studio by the pond — to the Atlantic, I find New Earth Goddess within my self. In earth’s garden, I discover my color alchemist self, each time I express feelings with paint. I open a new channel of colorful healing light for the divine feminine to speak with each brush stroke.

I draw inspiration from m...

B.F.A Printmaking Painting, East Carolina University

American Masters Painting Mentorship with curator Robert Bowers Mayo

Artist Residency Musee de La Grande Vigne, Dinan, France

Selected Exhibitions

G.V.W. Smith Art Museum
National Juried Exhibition,
Springfield, MA
Virginia Museum of Fine Art
Prints & Drawings ’81
National Juried Exhibition, Richmond, VA
Virginia Contemporary Museum of Art
Member's Exhibition
Virginia Beach, VA
Pastel Society of America
National Juried Exhibition,
National Arts Club, New York
Pastel Society of Canada
International Juried Exhibition,
Cambrian Rose Gallery, Ottawa
American Artists Professional League
National Juried Exhibition,
Salmagundi Club, New York
Pastel Society of America
Members’ Exhibition,
The Copley Society, Boston, MA
Kansas Pastel Society
National Juried Exhibition
Hermitage Museum,
Pastel Society of America Members’ Exhibition, Norfolk, VA
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Pastel Society of America Members’ Exhibition, Newark, NJ

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Musee de La Grande Vigne
Dinan, France,
Longwood University Art Museum
Farmville, VA
City University of New York
Emory University
HEALTHCARE COLLECTIONS

Vir Biotechnology

U. Mass Memorial Research Hospital

Boston Children’s Hospital,

Camp Lejeune Mental Health Facility

Wellness Center at The Landing

Riverside Cancer Center

Southampton Memorial Hospital

The Village at Woods Edge

Walter Reed R...