Dorothy lives in Loveland Colorado after having spent her first twenty six years in New Jersey. Her background includes a B.A. from Glassboro State College in New Jersey and an M.A. from Colorado State University. The degrees prepared her for a career as a science educator and a middle school science department chair-woman. Her background also includes extensive travel throughout the United States and a study in Italy. A 2002 trip to Italy lead her to concentrate on a new series of paintings focusing on religious portraits. These two entities, science and travel, have motivated her art pursuits. Science has given her the incentive for detailed presentations and realism. Travel has inspired her varied creations. Dorothy's philosophy of art is simple: Art is a reflection of reality as perceived by her mind's eye and mirrored on paper. She bids you to relax and enjoy. Dorothy is married and the mother of three adult sons. Together with her husband, William Speiser, also a retired educator, owns and operates a small gallery in the tourist coummunity of Estes park, Colorado.

Dorothy composes her work in either transparent watercolor opaque watercolor or pen and ink. The watercolors usually are executed on 300 lb. handpressed paper using only Winsor-Newton colors. Her work is distinguishable by its subtle color tones, its realism, and attention to detail. Her themes are varied but always include an appreciation for nature and/or reverence for the past. Dorothy paints a wide variety of art forms including landscapes, wildlife, still life, and portraits. Her art has garnered her many awards that include all the art forms.

Each original of Dorothy's is scrutinized for suitability of printing. The originals are developed only from artistic inspirations. The prints must represent Dorothy's highest quality work and the theme must have a broad appeal. After selection of an image, it is then printed in the same size as the original art. Each offset lithograph is printed on acid-neutral, museum grade paper. The edition is personally inspected, signed and numbered by the artist. Dorothy also offers remarques on many of her prints. This personal touch has been highly popular since she varies each remarque and uses watercolor as the medium. In order to limit the edition size of some images, Dorothy has executed the prints by photography.

Dorothy Speiser, a devout Roman Catholic, is one of the most widely recognized and collected wildlife artists in North America. Her elegant technique, exquisite detail, and lyrical compositions are matched with subject matter beloved by everyone. She began exploring the area of religious art portraits in the early 1990`s and continued study after a trip to Italy in 2002.

She has painted; Saint Juan Diego (1474 - May 30, 1548) was an indigenous Mexican who reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531. He had a significant impact on the spread of the Catholic faith within Mexico. The Roman Catholic Church canonized him in 2002, as its first indigenous American saint. Juan Diego was somebody that Dorothy Speiser got to know by doing volunteer work at Holy Family Catholic Church in Fort Collins, Colorado. It was the Catholic Church where many of her former Hispanic students attending mass. The humble little peasant was seen by her as the loving devotee of the Blessed Virgin, and as an inspiration for many of her students enduring the hardships of poverty and discrimination.

She has painted; Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was elected and ordained the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). Tutu is said to love her work and his portrait painted by her hangs above the fireplace in his living room. Alumni Dorothy Speiser was asked to paint Tutu when he visited the college where she got her own Master of Education. The Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town was both pleased and delighted with the painting according to letters he and his staff sent her from the university in Florida where he was teaching at the time.

She has painted; Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (August 26, 1910 - September 5, 1997) was a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. For over forty years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. Dorothy Speiser openly speaks of her love for the humble little nun who has done so much for so many.

She has painted; Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Pawe? II) born Karol Józef Wojty?a (18 May 1920 - 2 April 2005) reigned as the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City from 16 October 1978, until his death, almost 27 years later, making his the second-longest pontificate in modern times after Pius IX's 31-year reign. He is the only Polish pope, and was the first non-Italian pope since the Dutch Adrian VI in the 1520s. Dorothy Speiser found herself enchanted by the Pope when he visited Colorado in August of 1993. She captured the Pope as he visited churches near her home in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

She has painted two studies of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (1656 - April 17, 1680), the daughter of a Mohawk warrior and a Christian Algonquin woman, was born in the Mohawk fortress of Ossernenon near present-day Auriesville, New York. At the age of 4 small pox swept through Ossernenon, and Tekakwitha was left with unsightly scars and poor eyesight. The outbreak took the lives of her brother and both her parents. She was then adopted by her uncle, who was the chief of the Turtle-clan. As the adopted daughter of the chief, she was courted by many of the warriors looking for her hand in marriage. However, during this time she began taking interest in Christianity, which was taught to her by her mother. In Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Dorothy Speiser seems to fine that special religious subject she can admire as a person and blend it with her love of natural settings and wildlife.

Wildlife Art has made her very well known, but Religious Art has captured her heart and imagination.

As an illustrator she has done the covers of not one but two Church Histories and Directories for that little Holy Family Catholic Church in Fort Collins, Colorado. She has also illustrated prayer cards and pamphlets for various Roman Catholic Churches including; St Vincent De Paul Catholic Church in Rogers, Arkansas.

As an illustrator she has illustrated or is illustrating three books for Richard A. Payne; THE BANJO & THE TELESCOPE, written in English & Russian, with ten beautiful illustrations of Dot's in the book. THE WOODSMAN & THE STAR, is the second Payne book she has illustrated. It is written in English, Spanish and Chinese with 77 beautiful wildlife illustrations of the Colorado settings in the book. Currently she is working on the third book for Richard A. Payne to be entitled; HATTIE HART & THE FLOWER DOCTOR! HATTIE HART & THE FLOWER DOCTOR is being written in English, Spanish and Arabic.