"Thoughtful, evocative landscapes."
Alana Puryear, Ex. Director PG Art Center
"Lovely, Contemplative paintings"
Monterey County Weekly
"Transcendent paintings. They capture so perfectly the feel of the California landscapes I was born into and know so well."
David Cavagnaro - Author, Living Water
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The painting above is available at Carmel Bay Company. It was painted on location up in the hills off of Robinson Canyon Road.
Paola is available to paint commissioned paintings for you of your favorite place in the Carmel River watershed and beyond. You can contact her at 831.624.9467 or through this website.
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Passion for Place has been awarded the prestigious
IPPY Bronze Medal for Best Regional Non-fiction for the West/Pacific
(Alaska, Hawaii and West Coast states)
by the Jenkins Publishing Group!
Paola and her sister, Diane, will be traveling to New York City to receive the award.
Congratulations and many thanks to all writers and interviewees and donors and supporters for making this book what it is...A WINNER!
Passion For Place is exquisite. You can feel the River coming off the pages. And the wisdom of the people who belong to it.
~ Barry Lopez, author, Arctic Dreams
Passion for Place is a book and CD project for and by the community and serves as a prototype for people in other communities. The book would not be where it is without all those who wrote for the book, granted interviews (44 total) and those who are supporting it through their generosity of time, expertise, and donations. In addition, Pamela Takigawa and Anne Greene have created beautiful drawings of flora and fauna that accompany the text and paintings/photographs.
This project is about creativity and the possibility of cultural change, understanding what ecological integrity means, and knowing that we are a part of that integrity.
When we live together with a watershed consciousness, we come to understand more clearly how our actions affect the greater whole. Imagine how life and business could be different if more and more people around the world became immersed in their home watershed in this way!
To learn more go to http://www.passion4place.net/
“Passion for Place brings together and creates this ethos of watershed consciousness, a community that gives life to mindfulness on living on our Earth--our most expressive humanity of conscience and attentiveness. Passion for Place “…honors the spirit of place, giving an energy and heart and beautiful order to the commitments and conscience of humanity.”
I am grateful to the following supporters of Passion for Place who made the kickstarter campaign so successful.
$4,506 was raised! ($374. went to Kickstarter and Amazon for their services.)
Diane Berthoin Hernandez
Ariane Berthoin Antal & David Antal
Peregine Whittlesey
Cynthia Johnson-George
John Dotson
Elaine Bolduc
Laura Lee Lienk
Wendy Sinclair
John Brennan
Lynn Anderson
Rachelle Antal
Courtney Childs
Laurie Meyers
Stuart Thompson
Christine Williams
S. Gilbert
Ansgar
Debra
Julie Cason and Lisa Crawley
Jean
Anne Jones
Jeannie Botelho
Peter Reynolds
Hans Lehmann
Marlene Lily
Ian Berthoin Antal
Thomas Christensen
Elizabeth Holliday
Paul Schafer
Carol Reeb
Donna Emsel Schill
Mary Gale
Anna Beck
Stan Barkan
Kathleen Barrows
Ken Koval and Nancy van Ooy
Tom Antal
Joseph Narvaez
Letty Zazuetta
Gay Heller
Elaine Miller
Sherry
Komra
Leonard Han
Sharon Sarris
Neil and Dale Agron
Luke McCormick
Karl Pallastrini
Karen Harris
Sundee L. Morris
Victor Friedman
Lorin Letendre
Carmel River Watershed Conservancy
Patricia Schminke
The Carmel Valley Forum also became a supporter of the project making it possible to receive tax-deductible donations. 147 people, five organizations and one business supported the funding of the project totaling $30,732 !
Thank you all for your support of this project!
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The creative life is not only about creating art objects, but about how we, as a culture, can bring more creativity into all our lives to solve challenges, whether they are social, environmental, or political. Being an artist is about keeping open the creative channels with which we are all born so change can happen in beautiful and constructive ways.
All images copyright, Paola Fiorelle Berthoin, 2007-2013, unless otherwise noted.
Color variations from original to website viewing may not be the same.
Passion for Place book designed by Paola Berthoin.
