Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: May 2015

Sunday, May 31, 2015

The Weeping Tree

This is my new endeavor with illustration! The book is now available on Amazon.com. If you have bought a copy from me or online, please write a review on Amazon; that would really help our ratings. Thanks

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Summer Fun

Smith Mountain Lake #2 16 x 20 oil $650.

I will be demonstrating "summer fun" at the Little Gallery on Saturday June 13th at the opening of my new show that will run until mid July. Please stop by and visit!

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 31, 2015

The Weeping Tree

Monday, May 25, 2015

I like red

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Summer Fun