In 2012, Linda and I, with her sister and brother-in-law Elda and Doug, spent eleven days walking the last stage of the Camino Frances de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage path in northwestern Spain, that in its entirety stretches from the northwestern Pyranees to the city and Cathedral of Campostella de Santiago, where the relics of St. James are interred. The path (at the center of the film _The Way_featuring Martin Sheen.) is a beautiful, green, sometimes rugged and wet road, and the time spent walking it is both a challenge and a blessing.

How often does one have the opportunity to wake up in the morning and know for certain that the only thing one needs to do today is walk? We also heard tales of Galecian witches and chants, saw ancient Celtic Hill Towns, crossed rivers and followed the yellow arrows marking the trail through eucalyptus plantations established during the era of Franco, along meadows of wildflowers as abundant as the Texas Hill Country's and under giant oaks that have had their upper branches harvested for generations. We learned that walking is our native state of being, that a bowl of green soup is spectacular and that pulpo boiled and grilled with pimiento de padron is a meal fit for saints. I hope you'll join us to see the visual stories that this journey engendered.

From the movie website:
The Camino, by its nature, serves as the ultimate metaphor for life. Footsteps along a well-trodden path may be our guide, but do not shield us from the questions that most of our busy everyday lives prevent us at times from fully recognizing. The road offers very little to hide behind. The process of life is life along whichever road, path, Camino, or Way we find ourselves on. Our humanity toward ourselves and others, our history and our future is what defines us. Take the journey of life. Buen Camino!

In addition to the stitched textiles, I am also hanging some digital drawings and designs, as well as several three-yard lengths of commercially printed art cloth. For about two and half years, I have been exploring the possibilities of art-making on my iPad, and these pieces -- both the framed digital prints based on images and drawings from my travel journals in Spain and the larger lengths of art cloth -- are the results of those explorations. I've always been fascinated by the intersection of art and technology and find this era of apps and open source sites totally amazing and fascinating. I first started working with computers as a production artist, back when digital tools started making the work of layout and production so much easier and faster. What a way we have come, and how exciting it is to be able to carry an "endless pad of paper" with me on a 100 kilometer hike!

The results now are showing up in my art quilts and textile collage paintings, and are also available for use in interiors, clothing and other decorative uses as limited edition prints and textiles.

This is my second solo exhibition in one of the galleries at the Salon d'Artiste, located in a wonderful private home built by the owners. The home is in Mustang Crossing, a rural development near Pipe Creek and Lake Hills and about 50 minutes from downtown San Antonio.

Take Hwy. 16 (Bandera Hwy.) north of Loop 1604 to the junction of FM 1283 in the village of Pipe Creek. Take a left on 1283 and drive 3.7 miles to English Crossing Rd. Take a right on English Crossing and then in .6 miles take a right on Wild Horse Lane (at the subdivision sign), then left at the end of street on Mustang Crossing. The gate is well marked on the right. Google maps image and directions can be found here at this link.