Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer

Monday, July 14, 2014

Illuminated Thoughts

Parkway Series #428 12 x 16 oil $195.

Have you ever looked at the light coming through a tree and felt a tingle of excitement? Is it a feeling of hope or beauty or truth or a revelation of the Presence of a Creator? Maybe it is all of this rolled into an experience that my heart wants to capture in paint.

Enjoying the Day III

Parkway Series #427 12 x 16 oil $195.

Enjoying the Day II

Parkway Series #426 12 x 16 oil $195.

Enjoying the Day!!!

Around the Bend at Sunrise

Parkway Series #425 12 x 16 oil SOLD

Peaks of Otter Lodge and Reflection

Parkway Series # 424 11 x 14 oil Sold

I will be painting again at the Peaks on Saturday July 19th. Come on up and paint with me! My plein air group usually paints at the Peaks once a month. This is the plein air painting of the lodge I completed last month. Also, the Ridge and Valley Plein Air Painters show has been extended. Susan Oller, Rachel Lawson and I have paintings on display in the lodge until the end of August.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Spring at the Peaks II

Parkway Series #423 12 x 16 oil sold

Spring at the Peaks

Parkway Series #422 11 x 14 oil SOLD

The Ridge and Valley Plein Air Group painted at the Peaks of Otter on April 26th. This is one completed on location. We will back up there on May 25th. Come on up and paint with us!

Jesus is the Love of my life. And I look forward to "Going Home" one day and seeing Him face to face. In the mean time I am painting from His masterworks of sunlight and nature. Each painting in this series will include a path, (Holy Spirit) sun light (the Son) and a hint of liquid gold leaf paint hidden somewhere in the painting to represent the Father and His streets of gold. Some of my new paintings are on display at Black Dog Salvage. And July 23 through mid August, I will be showing 30 of my new "Going Home"paintings at Blue Ridge PBS station in Roanoke, Va. Please come to a reception Thursday 23rd from 4 to 6 at the PBS station, 1215 McNeil Drive, Roanoke, Va or view the show week days from 1 - 4. I am still working on my Blue Ridge Parkway Series with over 500 paintings posted online. My studio is open by appointment only. If you are interested in purchasing a painting online, please email janet.wimmer@gmail.com

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.