Bjorn Runquist. Amazing artist. We have a painting of his that he did of the ice cream shop and Stone Fish in Port Clyde, ME. It’s a favorite! I love this painting above. I think the setting is amazing, the flag just drew me right in. This is SO Maine… I really feel that’s where my heart is… Although, I believe that most people who visit Maine feel the same way!
Another fabulous painting by Bjorn! I would love to have this view… fabulous painting!
4×8″ $400 – Landing Gallery
Aren’t these paintings fabulous?! Aubade: a song or poem to greet the dawn… pretty cool, eh? These paintings are all of a similar view, different days… Stunning!
Read a blip about Bjorn from the Landing Gallery website:
“For me, making things is inseparable from living. What I choose to make is a function of how I respond to “ordinary” life. Sometimes that response is to make an object, sometimes a haiku, sometimes to whistle. Usually it is an object and that object is usually a painting as the physical, sensual, nature of paint functions well as a means for exploring my response to what I see. The “ordinary” can range from a sunrise, if I’m up early, to the sun shining off a delivery truck parked at the corner. It doesn’t matter: it is all life and within the commonplace there is often “all the wonder one needs.” This winter and spring I have started each day with a response to the morning as seen across Wheeler Bay. It is the same view each day and though its familiarity should make on blind to its beauty I find it always a wonder, no matter what the weather. It is the start of each day and a new beginning. From there the day evolves and further painting that day is nearly always an unanticipated engagement. The subjects vary: there are things I return to and there are things I paint only once. But, at the core is the ever-present force of light as the source of all we see, indeed, at the source of life itself – the source of each new day’s new beginning.”
– Bjorn Runquist
All images via LandingArt.com, used with permission from the artist…
Catch you back here tomorrow!
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Simply stunning. Indeed a fine painter! Have admired his work for a while….
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Good morning Susan! I love studying Bjorn’s work… I look at the detail in our, which from a distance looks like detail, but close up truly is not. Ooooh, I want to be able to paint like that and not paint every little thing… First of all, I need to get out the paints (ha ha)… then try using maybe a 2″ brush, because I can get mighty tight with a large brush… but maybe 2″ will work, hee hee… one day…
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another wonderful artist – feel so lucky to own a piece of his work!
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Me too, that was a nice surprise;)
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That Tenants Harbor picture brings back so many memories, love it! My heart’s in Maine, too. Thanks for sharing!
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Any time Marcia! I thought Bjorn captured that area so perfectly in that painting!!
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