Janet Rothermel
I enjoy the empowerment that comes from combining blank sheets of paper, graphite lines and individual sticks of pigment, into something altogether new that cannot be reproduced in exactly the same way again. There is a ‘rightness’ about that aspect of the painting process, in that it echoes the experience of living and the changes that take place in nature, minute by minute.
My landscape compositions, which frequently incorporate roads and pathways leading into distant vistas, symbolize routes to a larger world where the details of my everyday life are put into their ‘proper place’. I use color and line to emphasize and exaggerate for visual impact. Time spent in search of references for my painting – and then the act of painting those images – brings a kind of clarity to my life, and a window through which I’ve found a personally spiritual place.
updated 07/2019
