Guild Member Salon Show 2021

Dorothea Sandra

Guild Member Salon Show

“Hope’s Love,” Acrylic on canvas, 2020, 16 x 20 in, $120. I created this work of art to remind us that with hope there is love! For me, the yellow sky represents the enormous size of hope’s love for us. We are the fragile but beautiful and diverse flowers receiving and reaching upwards to hope’s love. Especially during difficult times, many people feel isolated and lonely. This painting was created using “evidence-based” (based on medical studies) criteria for art that inspires health and healing. Although not seen in the painting, facing a Lake Michigan shoreline home with an abundance of flowers in the yard was the inspiration.

Dorothea Sandra ABOUT: All artists have strengths, and mine is that I sincerely care about the health and healing of others. Many people tell me love and hope and happiness can be seen and even felt through my art. I am EDAC certified (Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification), and one of my talents is to create beautiful “evidence- based” art for all markets. Medical research now shows credible connections between certain types of art and positive health outcomes. I like to create “evidence-based” landscapes and an abundance of flowers, often with 10-20 layers underneath of different art techniques. It makes my style unique! I also specialize in painting abstract art with contemporary social statements. Two major collections include “The Forces of Goodness Series” (13 paintings for 2021) and “Systems Failure Series” (created in 2020). CONTACT: dorothea@dorotheasandra.com, Website, Website #2, (989) 474-9085. 193 West Huron Avenue, Rogers City, MI 49779. I’m hoping—once we’re safe from Covid—to open up my Rogers City, Michigan, small art studio to the public. I think it would be cool—especially for the kids—to enter and enjoy the workings of a modern graphic design/art studio. The studio is located in this friendly little town’s business district, just up the street from amazing Lake Huron.

“The Triangular Door,” Acrylic on Canvas, 2020, 16 x 20 in, $120. This painting is part of my “Systems Failure Art Series.” In this 15-painting art collection, I’m a troubled artist looking for answers to our societal systems’ failures. For more than half of the abstract series, I intuitively create compositions with “doors” within the art. Ancient Roman and Greek arches symbolized an entrance into something important. Biblical times brought the words, “Knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Today we talk about “opening new doors” for positive outcomes. Sometimes the way into happiness comes through surprising entrances. If you came to a triangular door, would you go in?

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