Janie Barker  |  Contemporary Landscapes and Abstracts

Janie Barker is a recent diplomate in visual and creative arts, but she has been an artist all of her adult life. She began working in darkroom arts for colour photography, but became a popular singer in her native New Orleans. She performed for eighteen years in hotels and clubs across the southern U.S. Turning to her talent for writing,  Janie later worked for a major corporation in marketing and communications. Today she has returned to the visual arts, seeking to express her boundless creativity and emotional range through the medium of paint.

“My landscapes are about beauty, drama and wonder,” she says, “but to express pure emotion, I can’t be limited by the notion of a subject–or even a brush!”

http://janiebarker.blogspot.com/

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Guest artist: Miro Omes

Art serves to capture the images of beauty within our imaginations & individual realm of observation, comprehension & creative expression. My ‘discoveries’ are captured with oil pigments on canvas as a means to share with everyone, forever…My preferred painting technique is to first colour block the deepest darks and lightest lights, early in the composition & layout process.

I then work rapidly inwards to round out each vision with the exuberance of colour, the play of light & shadow & the nuance of detail & subtle suggestion.Observe, connect, enjoy & smile…thank you for sharing my vision.

http://www.omesart.com/

omiro@yahoo.ca