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...
by Dawn Patel | Apr 27, 2014 | art, art business, artists process, Brian Greene, business, creative process, dawn patel art, On Being, painting, Physics, relativity, science and art, selling art, studio, The nature of time, time
Close up of Painted Door…as of yet this is untitledPainted DoorIt’s been the spring of slow beginnings here in Door County Wisconsin. It’s April 27 and it’s a chilly 37 degrees today. None of the bulbs in our woods have...
by Dawn Patel | Apr 17, 2014 | art, artists, artists process, Behemoth and Leviathon, Blake quotes, Buddha, buddhism, doors of perception, genius, knowledge, painting, visionary art, why paint?, William Blake
In Life As in Art: Lessons from the StudioWilliam Blake”Behemoth and Leviathan”c. 1805 – 1810 I love the paintings of William Blake. I don’t share his religious sensibilities, but when I look closely at them I share something beyond...
by Dawn Patel | Mar 10, 2014 | art, art therapy, artists process, artists studio, blogging, dawn patel art, domestic abuse, dream, healing, healing through art, painting, victims, women's shelters
The EscapeThis is the story of the birth of a painting, but it is much more. It is the story of life events that nearly destroyed me. I was not destroyed, but these events followed me. I moved from place to place, but they were never far behind....
by Dawn Patel | Feb 25, 2014 | artists, artists studio, creative process, layered painting, mixed media, painting
The bird without feet flies to the tree without branchesI have been painting in layers for so long now I can hardly remember how it all started. Ironic, actually, because to me layers are all about time and memory, our experiences and how they sometimes fade,...
by Dawn Patel | Feb 16, 2014 | arctic, art, commissioned art, eskimos, intuit, nature, painting, spirit helpers, studio, winter
Close up from “Spirit Helpers- Arctic Peoples”Last December we were settling into our new life, working daily in the studio and living in a small house in the woods in Door County Wisconsin. It happened to be an early, and somewhat snowy winter....
