https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=121 My Art Blog is where i am publishing my newest artwork, and some of my older works, and writing about each one... Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=121#comment-69 jan Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:15:39 +0000 http://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=121#comment-69 Your words mean a great deal to me, Karima. Until now, I haven’t tried to put words together to describe what my paintings are about…to me, or their process. It has been such a private, solitary, inner journey…and the beautiful visions that have come to me were often not even clear to me ( especially in words ) while i was painting them. But i sure did feel them profoundly…they were indeed magical gifts from another dimension.
Creating a website and especially an active blog has been a surprise to me ! You give me feedback from someone i have such respect and admiration for, who is quite familiar with the mysteries of the creative process in your own amazing poetry and prose, who has followed and purchased my art for years….and understands it better than most. When you say that my words help you be let into the “inner sanctums of the creative process”, to go more deeply into understanding my art, then i must be doing something right.
Thank you so much for your heartfelt support and feedback. It is mutual!

]]> https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=121#comment-68 Karima Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:50:36 +0000 http://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=121#comment-68 Jan, one of the great joys for non-visual artists like myself, is to be let into the inner sanctums of the creative process, that goes from an idea, a vision to be transformed into the final painting on canvas. I interpret of course in my own subjective way, many paintings, and “translate” them into verbal imagery, or what we call poetry. Sometimes I am “right on the mark” of what the artist was seeing too, and sometimes, I see more of course, colored by my own subjective experiences, and sometimes totally miss what they were seeing and feeling. How rare it is for us to be allowed in, and I want to commend your doing that here in your blog. It puts another dimension on to something that we found beautiful. intriguing, but maybe not in a way as spiritually deep as the artist herself was feeling and experiencing it..the flow coming to and through you as you say. Thank you for this gift of sharing your process, both in your most recent paintings and in ones from the past. It is all so fascinating to see the steps along the way to creating a beautiful and lasting piece of art.

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