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Janet Bartlett Goodman

Trees
June 17 - August 11, 2011

Essex Art Center
56 Island Street
Lawrence MA 01840
www.essexartcenter.org

Janet Bartlett Goodman comes from an artist family. Her life is infused with art. She studied art and is a consummate and very successful artist. Her work is interesting and somehow soothing. She is able to put the observer into different moods. Her work sticks with the viewer long after they have stopped looking at Ms. Goodman's works.

Down the Road by Janet Bartlett Goodman

paesagio giallo by Janet Bartlett Goodman

What do the trees say? by Janet Bartlett Goodman

Janet Bartlett Goodman states:

My father was an Artist. So the smell of linseed oil and turpentine always floods me with memories of my childhood.

The work that I am doing is about people and places that are important to me. The power of imagery to evoke emotions and create memories has always fascinated me. I use color, line, and depth to create a lyrical aesthetic. Each piece holds a single moment in time. In some of the works the viewer is invited to wander in. With the grid pieces, the viewer sits firmly outside the scene, and the image is allowed to stand-alone.

My background is in product design so, for me, material and processes are very important. Wax is a wonderful medium to work with and I love the challenges that come from working in this very ancient technique. Encaustic is a mixture of bee’s wax, damar resin and pigment, which is heated and applied to a substrate than reheated, and each layer is fused to the one below. Once fused you get a very rich, deep, luminous surface.

The process of making art should not be routine; it should make you continually question and experiment. Each piece should build on the success and failures of the last.

Learn more about Janet Bartlett Goodman by visiting her website: www.janetbartlettgoodman.com