“… Her work draws its energy, often, from her face on encounter nature- and there is something weedy and persistent that springs from the brisk and investigative character of her experience. The thing is, Doherty is as married to abstraction as she is to observable fact.  It is the tension between the active architectural framework that she builds from scratch and the bits and pieces of what she brings home from nature that is the true genesis of her “world” in painting. She is grounded, so to speak, in a fluid world, one apt to change, and her method relies on impressionism and response, on reflux, initiative and instinct.”  -Pat Rosoff