tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87204135810948909572012-02-16T19:43:43.649-08:00A more contemporary approach to traditional portraiture and landscapes_ simplify subject composition, create rhythmical color planes that depict movement in space, gives the imagery a new sense of urgencyVirginia Designs.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587964962157440497noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720413581094890957.post-2505737423667644182011-10-06T16:12:00.000-07:002011-10-06T17:32:11.135-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="color: #073763;">When visiting Bjorn's studio in Kent, CT, last weekend I inquired about his series of paintings on <a href="http://bjornrunquist.com/gallery.php?start=6">"Reflections"</a> painted last year for a show at the <a href="http://www.landingart.com/">Landing Gallery</a>. Looking at the <a href="http://www.hvatoday.org/show.cfm?page=info/physicaldescription.htm&amp;folder=info">Hoosatonic River</a> he reflected on it's physical size and "that it would never be the same...only place I could really see the sky was in the river, sort of a world upside down".&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xokiupR4C0o/To4qkcIa3KI/AAAAAAAAAD0/tJjbL5FVnAY/s1600/Cornwall+Covered+Bridge+above+Hoosatonic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xokiupR4C0o/To4qkcIa3KI/AAAAAAAAAD0/tJjbL5FVnAY/s1600/Cornwall+Covered+Bridge+above+Hoosatonic.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.coveredbridgesite.com/ct/w_cornwall.html">West Cornwall Covered Bridge</a>, ©VCP2011</td></tr></tbody></table><a name='more'></a>&nbsp;His home is nestled at the intersection of the Macedonia Brook and the Hoosatonic River, in a landscape over powered by the <a href="http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=2716&amp;Q=325234">Macedonia State Park</a> to the west and <a href="http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2697&amp;q=322806&amp;depNav_GID=1631">Wyantenock State Forest</a> to the North. Not unusual that <a href="http://www.kent-school.edu/news/10_11/04/smith.cfm">Kent School</a> where he is head of French Department has a very high caliber of Art Education and Languages. The local lore tossing around those hills, is that new new ideas are born of Old Woods.</span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1466844209" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OQASbcxE72M/To4-_2YEuhI/AAAAAAAAAD8/terbToRx7fA/s200/Sapling.jpg" width="135" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://virginiadesigns.net/">Old Woods, Journal Entry,©VCP2002</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8720413581094890957-250573742366764418?l=virginiapierrepont.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Virginia Designs.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587964962157440497noreply@blogger.com0West Cornwall, Cornwall, CT 06754, USA41.8714831 -73.361785899999979.709706099999998 -133.12741089999997 74.0332601 -13.596160899999973