WILD PLACES WILD HEARTS:
NOMADS OF THE HIMALAYA
by Allen Smutylo

BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM AND BOOK FESTIVAL AWARD BEST ADVENTURE / TRAVEL BOOK - 2007

Reviews

"... a profound and poignant meditation on the connection between landscape and culture. ...Required Reading."
The Globe and Mail, June 2, 2007

"In his mixed media, (consisting of watercolours, etchings, writings, textiles) Smutylo aims to evoke "the land memory" of the Kharnakpa and the world. And they do. Like a palimpsest, they evoke an archeology of place and the spirit and the character of the nomadsÉ. His artwork has the vastness and intimacy, realistic fidelity and enticing suggestiveness, dramatic movement and meditative stillness."
Ottawa Citizen, August 12, 2007

"Smutylo is inspired by nature but wants to do more than make a photographic record of what he sees. He seeks to capture the multi-sensory and extra-sensory experience of life with the Kharnakpa (nomads)....Smutylo uses a quote from Marcel Proust to suggest why his artistic career has taken him all over the world: 'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.' His gift to his readers and viewers of his artwork is to lend them those new eyes."
The Winnipeg Free Press, June 3, 2007

"This is a stunningly beautiful book, passionately written and richly illustrated."
The Edmonton Journal, July 8, 2007.

"Wild Places Wild Hearts creates its own category—a book that is a heartfelt account of an individual's experience, uniquely faithful to the restless soul. This book will subtly inhabit the imagination, connecting the reader with another reality, something unexpected, something authentic and potentially transforming."
Stuart Reid, Director, Tom Thomson Art Gallery

Hardcover • 320 pages • over 130 colour plates • 8.5" x 9.75" • $60

 

 

Allen Smutylo
504095 Grey Road 1
Georgian Bluffs, Ontario, N0H 2T0
Canada
email: allensmutylo@bmts.com