Jamie's House #214

Jamie’s House #214 is an original oil on paper by local artist Retta Dotterer, capturing the tangled beauty of a wooded Lowcountry landscape. Slender trunks, twisting branches, and layers of foliage fill the composition, creating a scene that feels almost abstract at first glance before the landscape begins to emerge through Retta’s expressive brushwork.

Retta builds the scene with a beautifully earthy palette of olive green, taupe, warm brown, muted gray, and touches of blue, then lets flashes of coral and pink move between the trees. Broad strokes and overlapping shapes give the woods a wonderful sense of depth, while the loose handling of light and shadow captures the feeling of looking through a dense stand of trees rather than documenting every detail.

Painted in oil on paper, Jamie’s House #214 is a one-of-a-kind Lowcountry original that finds beauty in a quieter, less expected coastal subject. Retta’s signature hand-painted pink edge frames the earthy landscape with a vivid contemporary contrast and makes the raw character of the paper part of the finished work.

16"W x 12"H