by Dawn Patel | Nov 22, 2016 | abuse, children's book, friendship, healing, healing arts, healing from abuse, healing through art, identity, inner strength, overcoming hardship, scars, stories, storytelling, swan, tiger, ugly duckling
Authors note: I wrote and illustrated this story over 15 years ago. I never really did anything with it except to send it to one publisher and read it to the Quaker Friends Sunday School, and to my elementary students in Washburn, WI. Some recent events made me...
by Dawn Patel | Nov 2, 2016 | allegorical painting, art process, art world, artists, clean water, creative process, energy, meaning in art, oil addiction, painting process, styles of art, visionary painting, visions, water rights
Visionary Painting is a very broad term that many people claim. In my opinion they are all valid but they are all not the same.I am not borrowing other’s philosophies that speak to me and making illustrative collages with known images in order to...
by Dawn Patel | Oct 5, 2016 | ancestor dress, ancestors, ancestry cloth, ancestry clothing, art, art process, Brilliant Stranger, dawn patel art, heritage, immigrant, india, indian immigrant, lineage, sari. saree, wearable art
To speak of Ancestors of to speak of the past in its human form. Dad leaving IndiaAn Ancestor Cape I finished this weekAll my life I’ve thought about India. Before I was born my father left on a ship. It set his life on a course that took him...
by Dawn Patel | Oct 1, 2016 | abstract art, ancestor dresses, ancestors, ancestry cloth, art, Brilliant Stranger, contemporary art, dawn patel art, fiber art, inlayed cloth, layered painting, textile art, wearable art
Mughals Dream 1996I’ve been so busy sewing cloth lately I can’t find time to write, but I have thoughts floating through my mind that threaten to leave me if I don’t give them my full attention. Thoughts can be fickle and needy that way....
by Dawn Patel | Sep 20, 2016 | ancestor dresses, ancestors, ancestry cloth, art, Brilliant Stranger, door county artist, etsy, fine art, fine craft, handmade, textile art, the creative process
I made a promise to myself that I would start to write about art again when I felt like I had something to say, something worth putting out into the world. That’s a heavy proposition. Who has something relevant to say? With all the voices on the...
