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"Painter Dorothy Davis decided a few years ago that she "had said what she had to say" and began cutting up her paintings and creating new art with them: tote bags. She has since contemplated burying what remains of her work in the Nevada desert along the path of the pioneers. Referencing her childhood drawings of cattails, Davis fiercely defines her style as representational, preferring figurative art in watercolor and oil. After spending her childhood in Idaho an and isolated Lassen County, Davis graduated from California College of Arts & Crafts and later earned a "personal" MFA by independently and methodically completing the cirriculum and presenting a 20 piece thesis exhibit. Cobbling together an artist's life through freelancing, teaching and networking in the artist community, Davis was featured in the 1960's OAC OCC art exhibits and later founded the Lamorinda Arts Alliance. She has long inspired art students at the Orinda Community Center and teaches in her studio to this day. Always growing artistically, Davis is currently creating a book of narratives based on her portraits and even dabbling in amateur filmmaking. Apparently, Dorothy Davis has more to say after all."
--from Orinda Art Council 60 anniversary book "OAC at 60", Created by Nancy Daniels and Written and Edited by Susan Garell