Dori DeCamillis

My work was recently featured on Zealous.co, a British art website. Zealous

Today is Miss Dori's Junk Drawing Day at Red Dot. My kid class gets to sketch old stuff I find when I clean out drawers and closets. (They don't relate to the stuff on an emotional level, so they tend to pay attention more and draw better.) Kamilla, Bay, Mia, Rivers, and Katie drew the subjects below and came up with the drawings that follow. Katie Bay Rivers Mia Kamilla

Then How When Nature Calls Thee       SOLD I just posted these new paintings from 2013 on the website (reddotgallery.com) All are painted this year, and they all measure 16" x 20" In Profound Abysm I Throw All    Like the Ocean Be Thy Jewel in Hand But Here's the Joy

"Italwas"   48" x 60"  2009 I painted this image of a Creek Indian Village as a commission for a collector. He lived on a hill above a bend in a creek where a Creek Village reportedly existed long ago, and he wanted a historically accurate representation of what the village might have looked like from his house. His home is near Talladega, Alabama.  I did months of research. With the help of the now late Miriam Fowler who worked at the Birmingham Museum of Art, I pulled together the image with references to the customs, culture, and village layout. I also used as a reference "Bartram's Travels" written by William Bartram, a detailed description of encounters with Native Americans in 1791. It is one of the very few bits of info about the lives of the Creeks back then. (As noted in Wikipedia, the original title to Bartram's book is:  Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive...

My work is featured today on Artistaday.com, a popular art website.  Here's the link

This month Annabelle belly danced with her fellow students of Aziza of Birmingham at the Birmingham International Street Fair . Check out her performance video below.  Just before dancing she had expressed an interest in dancing professionally, and after the dance she was approached by the owner of Chez Lulu (one of the best restaurants in Birmingham) and asked to perform. She now has a running gig at Chez Lulu.

I spent the past weekend being an artist in residence at the Alabama Folk School at Camp McDowell near Jasper, AL. The above shot is from one of my hikes on the property, into a deep and mossy canyon. Camp McDowell is situated in the Bankhead National Forest, one of my favorite hiking destinations, and, honestly, one of the most beautiful forests in the world. As an artist in residence, my job was to paint all day. This was my station, and looked out a large window over the forest. Heaven! An afternoon hike in the forest led to this amazing overhang. Clear Creek in the morning. An evening concert by some of the music instructors. This weekend the focus was on acoustic guitar. The outdoor shop where one of the instructors taught blacksmithing. I'm on the board of the folk school, and we had an annual meeting after the weekend workshops ended. It's the only board meeting where members sit in rocking chairs on a porch and coon hou...