Dodie Hamilton is a retired art teacher who has been painting, teaching and showing her watercolors in the Rogue Valley since 1981, when she moved here from the San Francisco area. She is a winner of numerous awards including a first and a sweepstakes from the Watercolor Society of Oregon shows. Hamilton also had an aqueous media painting accepted for the American Watercolor Society show for 1996 in New York, where it won a fifth place and CFS medal. She is past president of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, executive director of the Art and Soul Gallery in Ashland, Oregon, and teaches and paints in her studio in Medford, where visitors are welcome.