Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: Late Summer at the Peaks

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Late Summer at the Peaks

I will be painting at the Peaks of Otter on Saturday Sept 30 from 10-3. Come by and visit and eat lunch overlooking the Lake! The Mountain Music Festival will be going on too: it's so much fun to paint with the music!! If any of my students would like to join me, I would love for you to come!

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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.