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 | Sep 16, 2014 | art, baggage, blogging, culture, feminism, freedom, identity, masks, mermaids, mid-life, odyssey, paintings, sirens, society, women, women and age
It’s been so long since I’ve last written a blog post, I was beginning to doubt the future of this venture. I’ve been busy living life, and with all the activity and changes that this summer brought to my life, blogging was not on my mind....
by Dawn Patel | May 31, 2014 | Brilliant Stranger, dawn patel art, Door County, identity, Lost Moth Gallery, painting, place, poems, poetry, returning to art, therapy, visionary art, why paint?
My painting from 2000/2001 is now hanging at Lost Moth Gallery in Egg HarborThis is the place where the land and water meet. This is the place where the waves crash against your feet. This is the place where shore greets sea. This is the place where...
