About
Dorie Petrochko is an award-winning naturalist painter residing in Oxford, CT. She finds her inspiration in birding, field sketching and painting in CT, Maine, Arizona and as far south as Florida and Costa Rica. Her portfolio reflects the experiences and sensitivity she has with animals and her deep connection with her surroundings. Working as a volunteer, educator and citizen scientist in ornithology at the Yale Peabody Museum and for Project Limulus at Sacred Heart University, she has honed her awareness of the symbiotic relationships between bird species and their environments.
She has won many prestigious art awards and fellowships, including artist residencies at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, where she held a one-person show in 2024: “Tricks of the Trade- A Corvid’s World’ and The Don Eckelberry Fellowship for Wildlife Painting from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. As a founding instructor at the Yale Peabody Museum’s Natural Science Illustration Program, Dorie taught scientific illustration classes from 2009-2025 and currently teaches online sketching and painting birds at the New York Botanical Garden.
Her artwork is found in both public and private collections including The New York State Museum in Albany, the Silver Sands State Park in Milford in CT and The Connecticut Audubon Society at Stratford Point.
To contact the artist:
@doriesbirdart