Janet Fredericks

Open Studio Sale 2011

2011-11-21T18:07:00.000-08:00

This has been a productive year...lots of new paintings, sketches and prints along with Field Notes prints, all for sale. Come visit the studio or view the sampling offered here on line.

Purchases can be made by phone, 802-453-7757.

Visit my current exhibit "Minute Particulars" at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, www.fsgallery.com. West Branch Gallery, www.westbranchgallery.com. also

has several new pieces.

Studio Sale is Thanksgiving weekend, Friday & Saturday,

November 25 & 26, from noon to 6 PM or by appointment.

Gallery sales on-going.

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"Listening" or "Charlie Hears the Bees," 2011, 50 x 38"

"He who wishes to see a vision, a perfect whole, must see it in Minute Particulars." William Blake

Minute Particulars...New Work by Janet Fredericks

In this new body of work drawings and paintings invite the viewer to consider how our attention to something as small as insects can open the world to us. The exhibit's title, "Minute Particulars," acknowledges the infinite in the small while pondering and playing with ideas of fecundity and fragility, insects as oracles, tellers of the future, and biodiversity, the variety of life in the artist's natural environment.

In two large drawings entitled "Listening" and "Looking" children stand attentive as insects clamor about them as if wanting to be seen and heard...there is something on the wind. Unseen messages abound in this work while their "ominous luminosity" further draws us into their mystery.

Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery will be showing "Minute Particulars: New Work by Janet Fredericks", beginning with an opening reception with the artist on Friday, October 28th, 6-8 p.m. The exhibit will run through November 29th, 2011.

Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery is located at 86 Falls Road, in Shelburne Village.

Hours are Tue-Fri 9:30-5:30, and Sat 10-5.

For more information call 985-3848, write: mail@fsgallery.com, or visitthe website at www.fsgallery.com

"Looking," 2011, 50 x 38"

"Psyche's Ascent," 2011, 28 x 39.5"

"Of the World in its Becoming," 2011, 30 x 40"

"A Great Clamor," 2011, 36 x 42"

"A Clamoring," 2011, 20 x 20"

"Vocare, The Calling," 2011, 22 x 15"

"I Dwell in Possibilities," 2011, 42 x 36"

"Durer's Dilemma," 2011, 44 x 39"

Insect sketch, 2011, 5 x 5"

"Stillness Obsolete," 2011, 8 x 8"

"When we get there...," #1, 2011, 8 x 8"

"When We Get There...," #2, 2011, 8 x 8"

"Who's Got the Map?," 2011, 8x 8"

"Maps and Mazes," 2011, 10 x 10"

"Road to Yellow Mountain II," 2011, 10 x 10

"Road to Yellow Mountain I," 2011, 10 x 10"

"Nest," 2002-2010, 20 x 20"

"Foreshadow," 2011, 12 x 12"

"Luminosus,"2011, 48 x 48"

"Words Once Spoken," 2011, 40 x 30"

"The whole universe is full!," 2011, 12 x 12"

Exhibition Catalog Essay by Amy Rahn

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Souvenirs Exhibit at the West Branch Gallery

on view through November 1, 2009.

NEW WORK OPENS AT WEST BRANCH GALLERY IN STOWE, VERMONT, SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

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Ellore, 2009, oil/ink on canvas, 12 x 12"

SOUVENIRS

Souvenirs is a celebration of places lived, places traveled and places of the heart and imagination. In this colorful patchwork the artist puts together seemingly random and isolated artifacts…a multiplicity of squares that invite the viewer to discern patterns and possibilities, finding new meaning and perhaps the hidden wholeness within.

One may find many of these earlier images familiar from the artist’s paintings and drawings; water, woodland, flowers, plants, river stones and maps. What is new is the introduction of her travels and the uniform format of small squares; a playful survey of artistic experience.

To view more of the paintings on exhibit click on WEST BRANCH GALLERY to the right or type this address into your browser:
http://www.westbranchgallery.com/westbranchgallery/Painting/Pages/janet_fredericks.html

New works created at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2009-06-03T06:15:00.000-07:00

After traveling in Nepal for the month of March, I accepted a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for the month of April. It is a haven for visual artists, writers, poets and composers who need a quiet, supportive retreat among other artist who also want to concentrate on their creative work. I had been looking forward to a month of uninterrupted time to develop new work...to pull together some of my images and see what developed. The archtypal image of "city" as an angle of repose became a strong impulse in my drawing reawakening my interest for many years in how the angle of repose is present in piles....of firewood, earth, old tires, anything piled up from above. An angle of repose is that angle at which a material (that is piled) can support itself. Having come from Kathmandu, the great city in mountainous Nepal, with its sprawl-consuming rice fields and its dust and smog, I needed to work with these still vivid images. The result was about 20 sketches and drawings exploring the idea of city as angle of repose. Of course, the drawings are more than mere impressions of Kathmandu...they seem to speak to the unwieldy nature of human civilization as it builds itself upon other civilizations, striving upwards, suppressing what lies beneath...or islands...

The idea of circumambulation also enters these drawing...the reverent walking around sacred places, temples, the land where I live...

New work on paper

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Confucius writes, "The man of heart is charmed by the mountain; the man of spirit delights in water."

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New drypoint etching monotypes

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New Work

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4:15

Dee H

Yesterday was warming up, sketching today, learning about color and doing a painting.

I learned to go back to the start again having learned from the critique, focusing again on color and technique, focusing on seaweed and more focus on seaweed and grass. I also learned a lot about mixing colors which I had forgotten about ...I wrote down the combinations this time.

Burnt siena and viridian made a good sea grass. Wash for the rocks, a lemon yellow with a touch

of alizarin.

Marty

I learned to sit on my stool without falling off and to wear my cap backwzrds...about mixing color...who would believethat if you mixed burnt sienna with aquamarime bl that you would get get this gorgeous blue gray and also mix aquamarine could be mixed with aliz red and it would give you fabulous blue gay.When it rain son my paper I get snow flakes all over my painting...little star blotches.

Dee D

I have a lot to learn is what I learned...I need to rest...I'm very tired this afternoon. I need

some bigger watercolor brushed... do some vignettes, smaller waterccolor sketches. I enjoyed this afternoon and realize the energy it takes to be creative.

Carol C

The sailor noted that I have "3 buck chuck" in the back of my car. He drinks it too.

Feeling a bit discouraged...I'm finding it challenging to climb out old habits.

Painting on Clarke Island

2008-09-07T10:52:00.000-07:00

Friday, September 5

We arrive in pairs at the Craignair Inn. Some of us have driven for 9 hours from Vermont to get here. As soon as we can settle and gather ourselves together we meet in the parlor for wine and cheese and a little slide presentation on painters who have painted in Maine...Winslow Homer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, the Wyeths, Edward Hopper, Yvonne Jacquette, Childe Hassam...a way to show a variety of ways of seeing, a variety of techniques. The group begins to see possibilities and excitement grows for being in the presence of the inspiration for such great painting.

Saturday, September 6

Seven women painting on Clarke Island, Maine gather in the morning fog. Their task this first

day is to become familiar with this magical place...introduce themselves to the forest, meadows, bogs, quarry, and rocky coast that make this our chosen setting to paint for four days. We break for lunch and then head out to the cove to start some exercises to help us

focus on what is here.

Sunday, September 7

After a had rain last night the morning is clear, no fog, just gray clouds...time to go to the

cove and set up to paint...mostly with watercolors, one of us with water-soluble oils.

We work on color...getting to know the colors of grass, seaweed, rocks and sea. Rain moves

in and we take a break for snack and a critique. The sky clears and we return to the scene.

We put off going to the Farnsworth to see the artists so that we take advantage of the

perfect painting weather.

Water Scrolls, Mapping the New Haven

2008-08-06T06:41:00.000-07:00

Canoeing in Lincoln Pond, with my son Orion, we paddled through water weeds each with a finely etched drawing through the surface. A tiny organism was eating a unique drawing in each leaf. These leaves were yellow green or maroon...about

an inch and a half. We collected several to dry. Later I used them as a resist in monoprinting.