"An Artist's Pilgrimage: Paintings and Writing from the Camino de Santiago"

"An Artist's Pilgrimage: Paintings and Writing from the Camino de Santiago"

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“An Artist’s Pilgrimage” presents painter Susan Abbott’s oil landscapes, drawings, and watercolors inspired by her journey from the French Pyrenees to Spain’s Atlantic Coast on the Camino de Santiago. Journal entries and poems add a highly personal narrative to the author’s richly illustrated record of her solitary walk on a sacred path. This 80-page monograph is a singular and powerful presentation of a contemporary artist’s life-changing experience of pilgrimage.

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“I love it. Such an amazing visual portfolio of your journey in the best travel sketchbook traditionplus the lovingly crafted and beautifully executed paintings. It is just fabulous.”

“I have just finished reading your book. I love all of your artwork, it’s just terrific. And I find that your prose is equal to your painting. What a triumph.”

“I just have to tell you that this glimpse of your Camino paintings and writings hit me like a thunderbolt!”

“I read your monograph in one sitting yesterday, and it is wonderful and moving and beautiful! Your writing was so evocative and showed such sensitivity, and yes, vulnerability. The paintings conveyed a powerful sense of place. I loved the spontaneity of the sketches. The color is stunning!” 

“The images you captured with pen, brush, and prose sent me straight back to those magical days, alone, on the Camino Frances. It was a delightful read, Susan.” 

“Congratulations on the book. It’s spectacular, I ordered 3 more!”

With reproductions of all twenty-five paintings in the “Artist’s Pilgrimage” series, each accompanied by an entry from the author’s Camino journal that explores the personal and artistic impact of this walk across Spain. Also included are watercolors, sketchbook drawings and poems created during the pilgrimage, plus a preface about the practical aspects of hiking the Camino.

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