Several classes in art were completed through the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. At the present, Dorothy Byrne-Jones continues to teach and is the owner of Main Street Contemporary Art Gallery in Beaverton, Ontario. Her works hang in private as well as corporate collections in Canada and the United States. As an artist, Dorothy paints to satisfy her inner child. With the passing of her fifth decade she feels that a new life plateau has been reached.
New paintings respond to inner images that are yearning to be painted.
Paintings have bright, juxtapositioned colours. In many of her paintings she hopes to bring about controversy and believes that the viewer will in fact come to question prior experience. Dorothy has three main bodies of work comprising of several paintings. Abstract design is appreciated more by exploring the paintings, sometimes upside down, with the discovery that there is more than one right way to view the works. Dorothy experiences both pleasure, and surprise, in that which is revealed in the unconscious creative process.