Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: February 2024

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Hidden Treasure I and II

Blue Ridge Parkway Series #510 12 x 16 original oil $350.

Blue Ridge Parkway Series #509 12 x 16 original oil $350.

In looking through my paintings, I found 2 from last fall that I had not posted on my blog. A new show will be hosted by Second Helpings at the end of February of paintings and photographs of the Peaks of Otter. If you have special memories of the Beauty of Abbott Lake or Sharp Top or just a walk around the lake, please stop by and see these images of our treasured mountain resort on The Blue Ridge Parkway.

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

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Perspectives on the Peaks of Otter

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Hidden Treasure I and II