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Biography

Owner of Albany Arts, Academy, Studio, and Gallery.

Educational Background - BA in Psychology and MAE in Counseling. Many years of counseling, studying the human spirit.

12 hrs of college art with skills. I desired a classical realism approach that I only found by continuously seeking out today's masters that teach the beauty of the Old Master's. So, 10,000 hrs of masterful study and painting behind me...infinity in front of me. Striving to weave these two areas of my background together to create beautiful stories of life.

In 2011, I traveled with my mom to Italy. Seeing the magnificent art work of the Sistine Chapel and the galleries in Florence was life changing. I was kissed by the art of the Masters. In 2014 I retired from Counseling and began studying in studios and workshops under Instructors in the lineage of the Classical Artists. I began in landscapes and figurative paintings. I was commissioned to complete a portrait and my passion exploded.

Opened Albany Arts in December 2022, I have been teaching private classes, groups, and workshops since while continuing to paint commissioned pieces.

"Whether I am standing outside at my easel painting a landscape or in my studio working on a still life of cut fruit or a portrait of a unique individual, I am drawn to praise the Creator of all things. The beauty and complexity of created forms, the interaction of light, shadow and atmosphere, and the subtleties of color-these are all evidence of the One who creates and loves us. It is a privilege to be an artist and to closely observe these gifts."
Dotty works in pastel, oil and watercolor. The primary focus in her plein air and studio painting is to celebrate the uniqueness and beauty of the world around her. She has a deep love of nature and enjoys interpreting and celebrating the changing seasons, patterns in the landscape and observing the effects of light. She particularly enjoys plein air painting on location, but also spends hours in her studio completing plein air work, working on larger paintings and painting still lives.

Her paintings have been displayed and won numerous awards in local, regional and national juried shows. After spending five years in the Pacific Northwest, Dotty and her husband have returned to San Luis Obispo, CA, where they had lived prior to to their time in Portland.

Her paintings have been featured in nationally distributed publications such as INTERNATIONAL ARTIST Magazine, SOUTHWEST ART, WATERCOLOR Magazine published by American Artist, North Light Magazine, in "SPLASH 5; The Glory of Color published by Northlight Books, and CALIFORNIA LIGHT, Paintings of the California Art Club.
Dotty was recently awarded Signature Membership in the Pastel Society of America. She is also a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast, the Northwest Pastel Society and the Central Coast Watercolor Society and a juried Artist Member of The California Art Club. Dotty has paintings included in the permanent collection of the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, CA, Marian Hospital in Santa Maria, CA and SESLOC in San Luis Obispo, CA.

Dotty is represented by Park Street Gallery in Paso Robles, CA and is an active member of SLOPE (San Luis Outdoor Painters for the Environment.
She graduated from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, with a BA in Art, earned a Certificate of Completion from North Light Art School, and has taken workshops from leading painters including Arne Nybak, Don O'Neil, Polly Hammet, Robert Reynolds, Libby Tolley, Jim Kosvanec, Skip Lawrence, Albert Handell, Kitty Wallis, Ray Roberts, Brenda Boylan and Gabor Svagrik.
Dotty has illustrated several books written by her daughters on Latin American village life. "Portraits of a Peruvian Town in Words and Watercolor" written by Shelley Hawthorne was published by Dog City Press, and "Walk These Stones; Encounters along a Costa Rican Village Road" was written by Leslie Hawthorne Klingler and published by Squire Oaks Press.

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