Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: July 2014

Monday, July 14, 2014

Illuminated Thoughts

Parkway Series #428 12 x 16 oil $195.

Have you ever looked at the light coming through a tree and felt a tingle of excitement? Is it a feeling of hope or beauty or truth or a revelation of the Presence of a Creator? Maybe it is all of this rolled into an experience that my heart wants to capture in paint.

Enjoying the Day III

Parkway Series #427 12 x 16 oil $195.

Enjoying the Day II

Parkway Series #426 12 x 16 oil $195.

Enjoying the Day!!!

Around the Bend at Sunrise

Parkway Series #425 12 x 16 oil SOLD

Peaks of Otter Lodge and Reflection

Parkway Series # 424 11 x 14 oil Sold

I will be painting again at the Peaks on Saturday July 19th. Come on up and paint with me! My plein air group usually paints at the Peaks once a month. This is the plein air painting of the lodge I completed last month. Also, the Ridge and Valley Plein Air Painters show has been extended. Susan Oller, Rachel Lawson and I have paintings on display in the lodge until the end of August.

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.