Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: Explore Park Artisan Days

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Explore Park Artisan Days

Saturday is going to be a beautiful day to enjoy Artisan Days at Explore Park. Art demos, music, crafts, book sales, Christmas presents, hiking, dancing, food and more!! I will be painting and selling my newly illustrated Christian Nature series children's book "The Weeping Tree". Come by and visit from 10-3 at mile post 114 off the Blue Ridge Parkway.

1 comment:

LindaNovember 4, 2016 at 1:09 AM
Good luck with your book! I'm sure your illustrations are delightful.
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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.