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Jan MacFarlane’s move
to Northern
Wisconsin from Minneapolis in 2005 to start a new life prompted her to also
start a new art form. Drawing was her first love, but when she arrived for
her first art lesson with Doug Thomas, he asked if she would like to try
pastels. "Sure, why not" was her reply and she hasn’t regretted that
decision for a moment.
Artist's
Statement
In a way, nobody
sees a flower, really,
it is so small, we haven’t time—and to see takes time,
like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O’Keefe (Commenting on her successful flower paintings)
I
find that taking the time to see is the best part of my working in art.
There are the new-found purples, pinks and blues of the formerly white
clouds. There is the amazingly complex texture of the skin and shell of a
snapping turtle, a creature which in the past was something to avoid hitting
as it tried to cross the road in front of me. There is the gracefully curved
horns, the bony haunches and the oddly rectangular pupils of the goat, an
animal which formerly was just another farm animal.
These and a myriad of other treasures of nature have always been there but
until I take the time to really see in order to capture their image in a
painting or drawing, I miss their beauty and uniqueness which would make my
life as an artist less rich.
And
so, I take time to see what nature has to offer, and to investigate and
savor all of its richness of color, texture and shape. Then I take time to
create my vision of what I have seen. This means that I can’t crank out art
like an assembly line. It’s a slow process. The painting or drawing that I
produce becomes a journal of my time spent looking to see what is there. In
painting a goat, the challenge is to capture not just the image of the goat
but also a bit of its spirit, it goatishness, and therein lies the challenge
and reward of art for me.
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