Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: Tinker Creek

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Tinker Creek

Tinker Creek 16 x 20 oil SOLD

From the Hollins University foot bridge looking back to Rt 11, this Spring scene was begun on location two years ago! Many times I rework paintings that may not have hit the mark the first time. This is a definite improvement over the first try.

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Josie RayMarch 1, 2012 at 5:57 AM
Oh, Tinker Creek! Yes, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is one of my favorite books. How wonderfully you captured it. Beautiful. Peaceful.
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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.