{"id":1666,"date":"2025-04-29T19:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T07:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:39:20","slug":"an-artists-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"An Artist&#8217;s Audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s audit would be expected to have a different slant than a normal business audit but the quest for an independent examination conducted with a view to express an opinion thereof,\u00a0 remains largely the same.<\/p>\n<p>This artist&#8217;s audit consists of close to 100 mini paintings on paper, and records my own personal audit of the landscape from my recent travels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/?attachment_id=1668\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1668\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250429_1915143903513799988599301-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250429_1915143903513799988599301-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250429_1915143903513799988599301-892x1024.jpg 892w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250429_1915143903513799988599301-768x882.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_20250429_1915143903513799988599301.jpg 1045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been painting on location in the wilds of Southland and Otago and other places I visit in my work for over 20 years. <!--more-->Spending time in one spot allows for not only the geographical and topical features of a location to be absorbed but also for the more subtle breath and soul of the land to enter ones consciousness. The activities of humans and the elements of wind, rain, sun and fire leave a continually changing mark on the land and the creatures who call it home. Some of these changes are welcome and even yearned for but others are devastating and heartbreaking. These paintings are my attempt to audit the land.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/?attachment_id=1672\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250503_1903141907851922072515454-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250503_1903141907851922072515454-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250503_1903141907851922072515454-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250503_1903141907851922072515454-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250503_1903141907851922072515454-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250503_1903141907851922072515454-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250503_1903141907851922072515454.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks very much to everyone who supported this latest exhibition at Gallery De Novo, Dunedin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s audit would be expected to have a different slant than a normal business audit but the quest for an independent examination conducted with a view to express an opinion thereof,\u00a0 remains largely the same. This artist&#8217;s audit consists of close to 100 mini paintings on paper, and records my own personal audit of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/?p=1666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Artist&#8217;s Audit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}