Dorothy Stites Alig
The landscape has always been the inspiration for my paintings but this year, during this particularly stressful time, the landscape became more than that: it became my emotional anchor. The sunrise, the hills, the great lake surrounded by polycentenarian trees -–these are the lasting things. All else shall pass.
I spent several months this summer in a small town on the shore of Lake Michigan where the natural world was front and center. During long walks along the shoreline and through the nearby orchards I collected an array of plant materials (leaves, bark, berries and seeds) and made them into over 30 different inks. I have used some of these botanical inks in the most recent paintings as a way to, quite literally, bring a little of the natural world into the work.
See Dorothy’s interview in Sheridan Road Magazine here.
