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Watershed Legacy Portfolio
Aqua Culture: The Embodied Landscape
When a human life and a natural landscape spend fifty years in heartfelt conversation, a lived expression is created.
Aquaculture of the human body — 60% water — in harmony with an earth that is 70% water. We are not separate from this landscape. We are made of the same substance, moving through the same cycles, longing for the same return.
Earth colours below the heart. Sky colours above it. Melding at the threshold of the heart, guiding us home. A healing landscape traced, tracked, mapped in emotional colours that align with the body's own energy centres for you to experience for yourself.
Earth and sky and water — the mirror of the landscape within us. Feelings embodied, made visible in art. Emotions expressed in colors for the mind's eye to remix, to insigate the creative heart to do what it does automatically — meld us at the threshold — efflorescence from within.
Over the next two years, as I cull paintings from my healing art journey, I am writing their stories. Not what it means, rather how it actually felt to be there, in the moments of its creation. How ridgelines and horizons raised me up, how immersion knee deep in the meadow, something awakens Among Butterflies.
Throughout, learning the two-step: Splash Scribble, a tango in the heartland emerges.
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Watershed Legacy Portfolio are open editions of Dorothy Fagan's original landscape paintings — from the Appalachian highlands of West Virginia to the tidal marshes and open waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Available on Fuji Deep Matte Velvet paper and Artist's Gallery Wrap canvas in a range of sizes, from $35 to $1,500. Each edition is produced to Dorothy Fagan's specifications, made to live in your home for generations.
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Watershed Legacy Portfolio
A NOTE ON DOROTHY FAGAN EDITIONS
What you find here is not what you will find on Amazon or Wayfair. My paintings are licensed and available through retailers worldwide — and those works exist without my hand in the production, the color, the materials, or the way they arrive at your door. What I offer through this studio is something categorically different.
Artist's Linen Editions
Hand embellished. Signed. Limited to 50 worldwide. To create each Artist's Linen Edition, I print my painting onto Belgian linen and then add the presence of the moment. Translucent washes of acrylic. Pearlescent light. Textile collage woven into the surface. Marks made by my hand in graphite, charcoal, or oil paint stick — each one unrepeatable, each one made in response to the quiet intention of the woman for whom the piece is being made. No two are identical. Yours will never exist again. My hand made it. For you.
Artist's Legacy Editions — Paper and Canvas
Open edition. Available in an array of sizes, from $35 to $1,500. Every Artist's Legacy Edition offered through this studio is created to my exact specifications — the paper or canvas, the ink, the color profile, the finish, the way it is handled before it reaches your door. With decades of fine art printmaking, graphic design, and refined production experience, I didn't choose the most convenient printing partner. I chose the one who could meet my exacting standards. For the woman who wants something genuinely beautiful on her walls, this is where she begins.
