Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

October in the Mountains

12 x 16 oil Parkway Series # 455 SOLD

12 x 16 oil Parkway Series #456 $195.

12 x 16 oil Parkway Series # 457 Sold

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

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.

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!

Friday, September 15, 2017

New endeavor with illustrating children's books

I have several new books that are now for sale. After working with two authors, I was inspired to try writing and illustrating my own book. The Woman, the Child and the Dragon is my own creation, an allegorical story for children adapted from the Book of Revelation, Chapter 12. Please contact me at janet.wimmer@gmail.com if you are interested in purchasing any of the books

Friday, June 30, 2017

New Paintings at the Peaks of Otter

Linville Falls Fisherman 12 x 16 oil SOLD prints available

I am updating my exhibit at the Peaks of Otter tomorrow. New summer paintings and prints are on exhibit in the downstairs lounge and hallway of the Lodge.

Finished painting of Kane

Kane 12 x 16 oil SOLD

This was a commissioned work for a "dog lover's" 80th birthday. I don't usually paint dogs but I it was a fun diversion from Parkway paintings!

Friday, June 9, 2017

Artisan Saturday at Explore Park

This is the underpainting for a dog portrait I will be working on tomorrow Saturday June 10th at Explore Park. Come by and visit from 10-3 for the first of three Artisan Saturdays. It is going to be great weather to hike, explore, meet crafters, artists, musicians and eat great food.

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.