“The urge to create and the pleasure I receive from the activity has been with me for as long as I can remember. I believe that the creative process is connected to a higher being or force that is working through me. I feel that I am only a facilitator through which this energy flows.”

Dael Patton (BA, art education, & MA, painting, Cal State, Los Angeles) has been a painter and art instructor for over 30 years. She also has taught at LaVerne University, Idyllwild Arts Academy and the Los Angeles and Bonita school districts.