Jane Gallitan Powers - A California Modernist
Jane Gallitan Powers - A California Modernist
While the Bohemians were writing poetry and making Carmel famous, a group of painters, mostly women, were doing the work of building a sustainable arts community that would become Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Jane Gallatin Powers was the “spiritual rock” of the nascent art colony. Her story and artwork has never been published…until now. Jane Gallatin Powers was the great-grandmother of Erin Lee Gafill. Erin went on a decades long journey unearthing Jane’s story, and has created this stunning book about Jane’s life.
Erin is an award-winning artist, teacher, and author, from Big Sur, California. Her abstracted landscapes, plein air paintings, and still life paintings are collected internationally. Erin’s teaches creativity and painting workshops online and in person. Her workshops include The Passion of Painting, Awaken The Art Within, and her Art of Now series exploring the connection between art-making and mindfulness. She teaches regularly at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, every Fall in Italy, and at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. In 2008, Erin was honored as a Champion of the Arts by the Monterey Council for the Arts and the State of California. She is an artist member of the Carmel Art Association and is the author of the inspirational memoir Drinking from a Cold Spring, a Little Book of Hope.