Skip to content
The Dewdrop Logo

The Dewdrop

read deep, breathe easy

  • Poetry
  • Book Bits
  • OTHER SECTIONS
    • Featured Writing
    • All About Love
    • Why I Write
    • Way-Seeking Mind
    • Micro Gallery
    • Sutras
    • Koans
  • Newsletter
  • ABOUT
    • Contact
    • Submissions
    • Work With Us
    • About The Dewdrop: Who We Are
  • SUPPORT

Tag: painting

Micro Gallery

Tamerlie Philippe – Fading Memories

November 17, 2021November 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

Inspired by memories from her country of origin, Haiti, Tamerlie Philippe's faceless paintings are an ambivalent, diminishing recollection of home.

Tagged childhood, faces, fading, Haiti, impermanence, memory, painting, transience1 Comment
Micro Gallery

Jacob Lehmann – Constructed Spaces

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

In his collaged paintings, Jacob Lehmann explores the relationships between isolation and nostalgia, in connection to childhood.

Tagged childhood, collage, isolation, landscape, nostalgia, painting1 Comment
Micro Gallery

Gabriela De Paz – Enredadera

October 4, 2021October 4, 2021 Vanessa Able

Gabriela De Paz's flower paintings are portraits of emotions and a homage to the perpetual flux of the human condition.

Tagged color, emotion, flowers, memory, nature, painting, portraitsLeave a comment
Dane Lyn
Featured Poetry

Dane Lyn – holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019

July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Dane Lyn's "holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019" is a brilliant work of ekphrastic poetry, inspired by a religious painting by an unknown artist, titled "The Great Harlot of Babylon".

Tagged art, artwork, ekphrastic, faith, hypocrisy, Judgement, misogyny, painting, religion, religious art, Women1 Comment
Places I'd Like to Live: Ice Blue Mountains
Micro Gallery

Dave Sims – Watercolors

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

Dave Sims' watercolor paintings are a submission to the chance of creation and a surrender to emptiness.

Tagged art, chance, Emptiness, painting, surrender, watercolors, ZenLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Cynthia Ruse – The In-Between

March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

Cynthia Ruse's The In-Between reflects the parallel and layered elements of life, where light and darkness are blurred and the narrative of a painting becomes experience in itself.

Tagged art, Darkness, Experience, layer, Light, painting, space1 Comment
Support The Dewdrop
SIGN UP FOR EMAILS

TOP POSTS

  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
    Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Deneen Fendig and Duncan Trussell Talk About Active Dying
    Deneen Fendig and Duncan Trussell Talk About Active Dying
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
    Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
  • Gary Snyder - For the Children
    Gary Snyder - For the Children
  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead
  • The Culture of Healing: Louise Glück on Art's Restorative Power
    The Culture of Healing: Louise Glück on Art's Restorative Power

- BOOK BITS -

  • May Sarton
    Like Silt in a Flowing Stream – May Sarton on Solitude and Clutter
    May Sarton's Journal of a Solitude is the upshot of a journey into herself, into simplification and self-examination.
  • E.E. Cummings
    E.E. Cummings – Let It Go—The
    E.E. Cummings reflects on the necessity of clearing, of letting go of the things we cling to, in order to make way for love.
  • Tallu Schuyer Quinn
    Normal Days – A Tribute to the Ordinary From the Far Edge of Life
    After a glioblastoma diagnosis, Tallu Schuyler Quinn wrote about what dying meant to her body, mind and heart in this series of moving essays.
  • Padraig O Tuama
    In the Name of the Stranger – Pádraig Ó Tuama on the Language of The Troubles
    Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama reflects on the use of the word 'trouble' in Irish language, and its relationship to grief and mourning.
  • John O Donohue
    The Most Real and Creative Form of Human Presence: John O’Donohue on Soul Friendship
    Ancient Celtic tradition upheld soul-friendships and the potential for inner growth that they teased out.


- POETRY-

  • K. E. Ogden – Daily Labor
    Blending domesticity and earthy natural imagery, Los Angeles poet K. E. Ogden presents readers with quite the scene in three short stanzas.
  • Stephanie McConnell – Palms
    Pennsylvania poet Stephanie McConnell's "Palms" is a work of beauty, illuminating Saint Francis of Assisi.
  • Shanley McConnell – Mary sings a lullaby to her baby God
    Gently illuminating a story long important to civilization, poet Shanley McConnell grants readers a glimpse of Mary and the birth of her son.
  • Lawrence Bridges – Lake Hughes Road
    Los Angeles poet Lawrence Bridges makes his return to The Dewdrop with the disarmingly quiet and sparse "Lake Hughes Road".
  • Brigitte Goetze – How We Come to Understand or the Heart, the Right Brain, and the Left Brain Muse about Science’s Most Famous Equation
    Poet and retired biologist Brigitte Goetze digs into her scientific background to offer readers something beautiful and wholly original.
 

Loading Comments...