It is always with great pleasure when I get to share with you, a painting of mine has been collected. It is one of the highest honors as an artist and very humbling, indeed.
Many thanks to Anne and Roy Jespersen and Anne Jespersen Fine Arts for adding “Wild Flowers - Homage to Kathryn Woodman Leighton” to their personal collection. This is the first painting in my wild flower series. See below for a short story as well as the original painting by Kathryn Woodman Leighton that inspired me to paint this multi-layered acrylic painting.
“Janell’s contemporary interpretation of Kathryn Woodman Leighton’s wildflower painting is original and fresh. The unique use of materials, the vibrant colors and reflections takes us into the 21st century with bold confidence.”
“Wild Flowers - Homage to Kathryn Woodman Leighton”, 17” x 17” Acrylic on Multi-Pane Acrylic Glass
Kathryn Woodman Leighton “…painted in Montana every summer and these are the flowers she would have found wild, growing everywhere. The beautiful blue crockpot is used as a vase for the Indian Paintbrush, wild Lupine, Black Eyed Susans, Blue Aster and Larkspur. The flowers comprise the primary colors, red, blue, and yellow with secondary colors of green and purple to fill in the spaces. For an artist, this must be a luscious subject to paint. The bouquet’s composition is not even, it was a spontaneous arrangement. It is not overthought or too well considered, which gives it authenticity and freedom from pretense, much the same as the flowers themselves. They are wild and enjoy an uncultivated existence.”
~Donna L. Poulton, Ph.D.
“A celebrated Indian portrait and landscape painter, Kathryn Woodman Leighton created panoramic landscapes especially big scenes of glaciers. Having been told about Glacier National Park by Charles Russell, Kathryn spent much time in that region beginning in 1922. Also doing floral still life and landscapes, she repeatedly depicted her favorite subject, which was the desert in bloom.”
~Abbreviated Biography from the Archives of askART~
