Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: July 2013

Friday, July 26, 2013

Summer 2013

Parkway Series #408 12 x 16 oil Donated to Faith Christian School

This is the last of a Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring collection of paintings of the Buck Mountain Road/Parkway Overpass. This bridge borders the property of Faith Christian School and hopefully, the series will help raise the much needed funds for the new school. It has been very interesting to me to see how my paintings have changed over the last four years as I have completed one each year.

Monday, July 8, 2013

Incredible View

New Castle, Virginia 15 x 30 oil Sold

This view of the Blue Ridge was commissioned by Tom Palmer of New Castle. It is the view from the front deck of his home in New Castle. It makes you want to take a deep breath of clean, invigorating Blue Ridge air, and feel the morning sun as it rises higher and higher. So many are too busy to experience this, even occasionally. Can you imagine soaking this in, every morning, with a cup of coffee?

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.