Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: March 2013

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Fallingwater Cascades

Parkway Series #403 18 x 24 oil $500.

This is a remake of #200 in the Series. I am now going back and painting some of my favorites in larger sizes. I remember this hike to Fallingwater Cascades vividly. This is at the very bottom of the waterfall as you walk over the bridge and head back up the hill. It was a very hot and humid day in August. I love the hike but I will never do it again in August, not because of the weather, but because of the snakes!

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Blue Ridge Marathon 2013

Parkway Series #402 12 x 24 oil Donated to the Blue Ridge Parkway

I knew painting #394 needed something else but not until I talked with Pete Eshelman did I realize that it was destined to be the new "marathon" painting. I took some of his photos from last year and added the runners and came up with painting #402! Sometimes it is amazing how paintings take on a life of their own!

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.