Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: Spring on the Parkway

Monday, April 23, 2012

Spring on the Parkway

Parkway Series #379 12 x 16 oil sold

Spring on the Parkway is so rejuvenating after hibernating in the house all winter. I am really excited to start painting outside again. This Saturday is the first "plein air" competition of the year at Poplar Forest in Lynchburg. About 20 plein air artists will be painting on the lawn and paintings will be juried in the afternoon by Bill White, retired Hollins professor and plein air artist. Competition and critique always get my adrenaline pumping.

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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.