Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: May 2014

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Parkway Series #422 11 x 14 oil SOLD

The Ridge and Valley Plein Air Group painted at the Peaks of Otter on April 26th. This is one completed on location. We will back up there on May 25th. Come on up and paint with us!

Friday, May 16, 2014

Garden Club Tour of 2014, Roanoke, Virginia

Garden Tour 2014, Davidson Home 12 x 16 oil $195 each

The day was exquisite for plein air painting! These are the two paintings I completed at the Davidson home on Somerset Street in Southwest Roanoke. The Ridge and Valley Plein Air Painters really enjoyed painting in the gardens of these beautiful homes on tour. Thanks so much to the Mill Mountain Garden Club for the invitation!

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.

Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Spring at the Peaks II

Spring at the Peaks

Friday, May 16, 2014

Garden Club Tour of 2014, Roanoke, Virginia