Janet Roberts

Uncertainty is my welcomed comrade. Its presence allows me to stand before a 6 x 7 foot piece of linen and discover who I am and who I can become. That though I am a 50 year old woman, a four time cancer survivor, a mother of four daughters,an accomplished horsewoman... these things, though intimately precious, are not what absolutely defines me or limits me. I continue to take risks, manifesting change, growing, and experiencing new fertile moments every day I paint. "Uncertainty is the inevitable and most valuable companion to any artist's desire to create important art"

I understand that the world offers much more support to art that it already understands, and that I live in a community that embraces art that has been around for many generations. After all, it was these adventurous painters before us that gave us feet to stand. But things are changing here. A small troop of expressionists that live and work on the Peninsula are forming a fresh, new alliance. I believe that colorful,authentic, perfectly composed, abstracted images and expressions of new thoughts and ideas matter. Painting that may be influenced by the sea, or the sky, or the landscape, but is developed in the mind and resolved in the heart. My new work provokes thought, its’ energy offers healing, it enlightens, and it, hopefully, elevates the emotional intelligence of a space.