Dodi Fredericks

No. 40, Atmospheric Landscape Watercolor Painting, 2025

2025

Dodi Fredericks (Seattle, WA) brings a practiced eye to her painting, shaped by past careers in both pottery and landscape architecture. Her watercolor landscapes are quiet meditations on place—evoking mood, light, and a sense of scale that invites personal reflection. Each piece captures more than a scene; it holds space for the viewer’s own memory and emotion. Her process is rooted in intuition, guided by the fluid, unpredictable nature of watercolor. Through shifting patterns and layered color relationships, Dodi lets the painting unfold organically—mirroring the way landscapes themselves evolve over time. Dodi's watercolor painting practice of evocative rather than literal landscape as well as suggestible abstraction in line and form are influenced by her previous professions as a landscape architect and potter. In ceramics her inspirations were Japanese Mashiko and Okinawa stoneware and porcelain with calligraphic surface patterns made liquid in the fire. Her watercolor abstracts recall the liquid aspect of the heat-induced fusion of pottery glazes skimming over vessels with calligraphic decorations. In landscape architecture her practice was always to create environments that conjured the inspirational experience of iconic Northwest settings. Her paintings are constructed, intentionally spare and imagined views that borrow from Puget Sound wetland flats, islands, beaches, bays and the agricultural lands of eastern Washington.