"I love to paint people. I don't know why I prefer to do portraits, but it seems that each time I do something else, I get itchy to get back to portraits. John Howard Sanden calls portrait painting the "Mount Everest" of painting and he says ...'If man is the highest form of creation, then the recreation of man on canvas is the highest and most challenging form of painting.'"

Dorothy Newland attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has studied extensively with Leonard Bahr, Jack Foflygen, Cedric Egeli, and John Howard Sanden. She has attended intense workshops by Burton Silverman, Henry Henche, Raoul Middleman, and Daniel E. Greene.

She has been painting professionally for some 28 years. She teaches drawing and painting and has conducted workshops.

Dorothy is a member of the Maryland Society of Portrait Painters, The Working Artist Forum, and is a past president of Chesapeake College Art Advisory Board. She is a co-owner of the Troika Gallery Fine Art Studio and loving every minute of it!