Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: "I just work here"

Friday, September 18, 2009

"I just work here"

Parkway Series #11 12 x 16 oil Sold

Artists have a hard time with self-critique. Always making judgements of my own work leads to self-doubt and apathy. Daily painting gives me little time for second thoughts. I like the artist, Wolf Kahn's motto, "I just work here". After a year of daily painting maybe I'll slow down enough to critique my work.

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Treatise on why I create

An artist, musician, craftsman, theatrical director, performer, all know that the human heart longs for truth, goodness, and beauty. If we can create that sense of longing, we capture our audience in the creative experience. In Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz, Frank creates a magical story about longing for home. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is a plea by a young girl to find that place of rest, a home in which to feel safe. St. Augustine said "our hearts are restless until we find our rest in God". Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer, expressed his faith through his music. He sat before a painting of Jesus every day and prayed for an hour before beginning his day. His composition "The Mission" transports the listener to another place, another time, another dimension of reality - an eternal home- a celebration of beauty. My goal in painting is to draw the viewer into a higher sense of reality and to feel that sense of longing and to hopefully realize that longing is ultimately for the eternal home, Heaven.