Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: August 2014

Friday, August 29, 2014

Summer Paintings "En Plein Air"

Parkway Series #430 12 x 16 oil $195.

This summer the Ridge and Valley Plein Air Painters have had several outings to paint on location. This was painted at Explore Park.

Parkway Series #431 12 x 16 oil Sold

We will be painting at the Peaks of Otter on September 27th from 11-5 for Art and Music in the Mountains. Please come by and visit!

Parkway Series #432 12 x 16 oil SOLD

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Teaching the next generation

Parkway Series #429 oil 12 x 24 SOLD

Could there be a better place than the Blue Ridge Parkway to teach the next generation about God and country and the conservation of nature? Thanks to those who are passing it on!!!

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.