About The Artist
Watercolor has many moods. Worked into innumerable, translucent layers on dry paper, it achieves nuanced depths as “veil” painting. When applied to wet paper, it can be swiftly modified in the so-called “wet-method.” Spread directly onto prepared canvas, watercolor pigment can imitate oil and acrylic intensity. Capable of ranging from a gentle wash to textured brilliance, watercolor is elusive, malleable and honest.
My own journey as painter followed the traditional arc from imitation to improvisation. I started out by copying landscapes as I traveled to mountains, through forests, and along shores accompanied by a miniature painting kit. In the studio, I worked on larger veil paintings which usually began as color studies and often ended up with recognizable themes. Eventually, wet paint joined the veils, and more suggestive paintings emerged. Most recently, I’ve been exploring watercolor on prepared canvas to achieve vibrancy and texture, whether the theme be representational or abstract.
My goal is to do justice to both the objectivity of color and my intentions, and to find a balance between the two.
Dorit brings a cosmopolitan background to all her undertakings. She was born in Jerusalem, attended kindergarten in Zürich, primary school in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and junior and senior high schools in New York City.
She has an MA in comparative literature from SUNY/Binghamton. She attended the Corcoran School of Art, and also studied privately with Ted Mahle, Director of Arts Program at Rudolf Steiner College, Fair Oaks, California; Jennifer Thomson, Director, Sun Studio, Crestone, Colorado; and Donald Hall, Director, Freie Malschule, Bolzano, Italy.
Dorit has taught a variety of subjects in the arts and humanities, including painting and art history, at the middle school, high school and adult levels. Now “retired.” In recent years, several of her paintings were part of juried exhibits at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. Numerous paintings are in private collections.
Also a writer, Dorit has developed a method of creative writing that leans on her experience as a painter. ‘Pictorial Writing’ is a method she has shared with students of all ages over the past five decades. ‘Fire the Imagination, Write On!’ a practical primer on the pictorial writing method, was published in 2017.
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