Raised in the south, Dorothy studied portraiture first with Christopher Clark and Constance Miller in Tampa.  Then she was fortunate enough to work for seven years with Roman and Constantine Chatov in Atlanta all throughout the 70's.  With that as a background, she has continued to train with other notable artists whom she admires and her work has become more and more about her own personal expression.

"After years of representational work, my appreciation of the abstract has become more and more what I'm interested in.  What is it that conveys an experience and recreates for others those feelings?  What is it that can engage another's imagination and entertain their attention?  I'm looking for the unconscious in communication that sparks just before one's mind starts dialogue.  Then, of course, the stories started, the interpretations are really endless."

Dorothy's paintings have been exhibited throughout the United States and are in corporate and private collections in the US and Europe.  A signature member of the Women's Caucus for the Arts, she's a member of the Oil Painters of America and the Washington Ceramic Artists Association. She's represented by Shack Gallery in Everett, UpFront Gallery in Issaquah, Kirkland Art Center Store, Kirkland, and White Bird Gallery in Cannon Beach.

She lives and maintains a studio in Redmond, WA where she and her husband work, both collaboratively on ceramic sculpture, and individually on paintings.