Dorian Art Lab

A number of years ago I purchased a package of colored pencils and started to draw various shapes—shapes that beckoned me with a mind of their own. A world began to emerge, one far from the constraints of my daily routine. I sometimes braid these—circle, triangle, square—with snippets of music, strange figures, balloons, and trains that illustrate my writing for children.

The creative current that underlies my art also sparks an impulse to write poems, a number of which I’ve included elsewhere on this site.

Each of the prints on this page corresponds to a movement from a Bach Suite, a purely subjective response to the sequence of musical pitches, subtleties of texture, the way in which certain groups of notes seem to be “in love” with one another, and imagery that the music evokes.

Judith Dorian