Description: This site contains the original artworks of Janet Simmons Sweet Artist (Painting) currently for sale at the Alton Mill Arts Centre, an exhibiting history, and upcoming events featuring her paintings. Contact information is included for appointments or inquiries.
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Janet Simmons Sweet, CFS
My artwork is an evolution of Romanticism and Impressionism. The two eras changed art by injectin​g emotion, into what otherwise would be a simple landscape. How this was accomplished with dramatic lighting, atmospheric mood, and fluid movement would become my goal in completed artworks. It gave me the opportunity to work through, release, and even escape, my own emotion. The relationship built with the canvas and on the canvas. This is often used in a contemporary context, with multiple canvases used to ex
"Light Transforms the Mundane to the Spectacular"