Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: April 2020

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Trust

Parkway Series #490 12 x 16 oil $295.

The blue mist, the ambiguity, the precipice, the edge, the sunlight, the mystery.... attracted me to this image. Acknowledging the blue mist of sorrow and learning to live on the edge, not knowing what is on the other side, living with ambiguity, becoming comfortable with mystery, and yet not fearing the precipice because of the Sonlight is the message of this painting. TRUST is a beautiful thing!!

Rising Son

Parkway Series #489 12 x 24 oil SOLD

It's a New Day; the Sun is Rising. You cannot see the sun in this painting but you can see its effects and feel its warmth. Our world changes every 24 hour cycle - the colors, the temperature, the humidity, the shadows. Our world has changed in the last 30 days enormously but Our God is the same yesterday, today and forever. Oh, for a 1,000 tongues to sing My Great Redeemers Praise!

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.