Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: November 2017

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Artisan Days at Explore Park

Susan Oller, Rachel Lawson and I will be painting at Explore Park on Saturday from 10-3. If it is too windy or cold we will be inside the welcome center. This is the last weekend the center will be open, until Spring!! Please come by and enjoy the leaves, the hiking trails, the music and the art.

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.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

October in the Mountains

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Artisan Days at Explore Park