Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: Illuminated Shadow

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Illuminated Shadow

Parkway Series #392 Illuminated Shadow 18 x 36 $700.

You are invited to a Holiday Showing of Paintings by Janet Wimmer and Susan Oller Henderson at the Electirc Company in Bedford Va. in November. We will be hanging the show October 31. Reception is Friday night Nov. 8th. Mark your calendar and come!!

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LindaOctober 23, 2019 at 1:26 AM
Very pretty!
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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.