| CAROLYN AFFLECK walked the Camino francés in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and some of the photographs she took on that trip are featured in the 2005-2007 Peace Walker Camino calendars. An avid walker, she has also done portions of the Shikoku pilgrimage in Japan and the Trans Canada Trail. See more of her work at her website. | HENNY DEKNEGT
, from Glenford, New York, took her photos on spring walks between 2001 and 2005 to catalogue the "people, landscape, apprehension, blisters, churches, tiredness, laughter, bocadillos, and singing". She has walked the Camino francés, the Vía de la Plata, and on to the Finisterra promontory on the Atlantic coast. You may contact her at HDK000 AT aol.com |
| ERIC DOUD walked a thousand miles of pilgrimage trails to Santiago in 1996 in the company of author Conrad Rudolph (Pilgrimage to the End of the World). Along the way he recorded the countryside in sketches and watercolors from the high Auvergne of central France to the barren plains of northern Spain. He works as an architect in Winters, California. www.ericdoudarchitect.com. | TONY KUPERSMITH walked to Santiago in 2005 after graduating from the College of William & Mary. The following year he taught at The Royal Hospital School in Ipswich, England before returning to the US as an intern on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. He is the youngest of the artists represented in this exhibit. |
| KATIE LÓPEZ has been on many pilgrimages around the world but knows the Camino de Santiago intimately from seven pilgrimages and has served as a hospitalera in refugios in Castrojeriz, Ponferrada, Frómista, and Villafranca del Bierzo. Her watercolors display an admirable simplicity and sensitivity. She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. An exhibition of her watercolors from the Camino and Turkey, Tras los pasos de peregrinos... opened in Burgos in June, 2005 and traveled the Camino. | WANDA SAWICKI ’s fusion of spirituality and art is well known throughout Canada and the US. She has worked as an art therapist for thirteen years with a focus on cross-cultural, bereavement and spiritual issues. Wanda has walked the Camino de Santiago de Compostela four times since 1996. She is currently completing a Masters in Arts of Pastoral Psychology at St. Stephens College, University of Alberta in Edmonton. She may be reached at wsawicki@sympatico.ca. |
| FR. JEROME TUPA, OSB , is a Benedictine monk of St. John’s Abbey and retired professor of French at St. John’s University in central Minnesota. His watercolors and large format oil paintings on pilgrimages including Uncommon Mission-California Missions, The Road to Rome, and The Road to Santiago have been featured at galleries in Paris and across the US. See more of his life and work by clicking here. | TOM WOOD holds a medical degree and an advanced degree in computer science, and finds joy in pilgrimage and photography. A resident of Williamsburg, Virginia and a pilgrim to Santiago four times to date, both by bicycle and on foot, he is principal staff photographer for American Pilgrim magazine. |
