I get up quite early in the morning- I always have. The mystery and quiet of the darkness at dawn has ever held me in its thrall. Lately, I have used this time to watch the flickering images of a video on my computer monitor: making her steady, but teetery, progress down a Brooklyn sidewalk, [...]
Category Archives: Sharon Burns-Knutson
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”
December 22, 2009, 1:59 pm
I haven’t spent a part of these last two Sundays of the advent season within a church. Rather, I have begun them, as I begin most days, with a run with Buddy. The snows of December, however, have made me amend our routes, so on both Sundays, Buddy and I were jogging past snow-covered hills [...]
Impressionism…and Sharon Burns-Knutson
August 20, 2009, 7:39 am
“Impressionism as a technique devoted to capturing the effects of light out of doors is exemplified most purely in the painting of Claude Monet, who forced it to its limits, and then beyond.” John Canaday Recognizing the stylistic differences amongst the painters who since 1874 when they were first ridiculed by critics as “Impressionists”, was [...]
#4: Sharon Burns-Knutson / December 4
December 4, 2008, 5:14 pm
Continuing our countdown… Sharon Burns Knutson went to the Smoky Mountains last fall and has done a suite of oil pastel drawings that evokes their colorful essence in all of its autumnal splendor.