Sharon Kingston is a Bellingham-WA based artist creating abstract landscape paintings which evoke memory, atmosphere and emotion. Infused with poetry and metaphor, these paintings suggest atmospheric landscapes through abstracted layers of color and form. These imagined places invariably correspond to personal emotional states. The innate ambiguity of abstraction as opposed to representation allows Sharon to explore the transformative process of making art, to seek a balance between inner and outer worlds, to modify an underlying state of complexity and to coax a simple beauty out of it all. Her intentions are for subtley; for a lushness and depth of color and a softness of edge that engages the imagination and conveys a sense of place and emotion. Recently, the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke has been influential to her work.
Sharon studied visual art and art education here in Bellingham at Western Washington University and has shared my passion for the arts with elementary age children as a youth art instructor for the past 6 years. She is currently resident artist, gallery director and art instructor at her studio/gallery Works on Canvas. Sharon's paintings are held in private collections in the USA and Canada.
Group & Solo Exhibits
Two person exhibit, Interpretations, Allied Arts Juried Artist Serieis, July 2010
Abstract Landscapes, Barbo Furniture, June 2010
Solo show, Reading Rilke, Works on Canvas Gallery, May 2010
ALLIED ARTS MEMBER SHOW, March 2010 exhibiting artist
THIRD PERSON PLURAL, March 2010 exhibiting artist
RED show, February 2010 exhibit curator and exhibiting artist
Size Matters, January 2010 exhibit curator and exhibiting artist
Reaching for the Light, November 2008 & 2009, Non-juried group exhibit
Friends of the Blue Horse Benefit Exhibit, November 2009 Invitational Group show
Whatcom Artist Studio Tour, October 2009 Juried studio tour
Whatcom Artist Studio Tour Preview Exhibit , September 2009 exhibit curator and exhibiting artist
Flirting with Abstraction, June 2009 exhibit curator and exhibiting artist
Allied Arts Member Show, March 2009 group exhibit
Nudes on Parade, February 2008 Juried exhibit Blue Horse Gallery and Studio UFO
Public Hanging, January 2008 Blue Horse Gallery
Objects, 2008 Harris Street Cafe
South Hill Historic House Tour, Forest Street House, 2008
First Friday Downtown Bellingham Artwalk Monthly Studio Exhibitor, June 2008 to present
Cover Art Linguistics at School by Kristin Denham and Anne Lobeck, Cambridge Press 2009
Honorable Mention, 2008 Nudes on Parade Juried Exhibit for painting Self Defining
Salute Auction Poster Original Art, 2007
Teaching
Developed and taught Masterminds Summer Camp program bridging art and science in conjunction with the American Museum of Radio & Electricity, 2009
Student and instructor participant in the Woodland Park Zoo Penguins on the March exhibit, 2009
Studio Friday Art Program created for St Paul's Academy elementary students, 2008/2009
Classroom Visiting Artist and after school art program instructor, 2005-present
Education
Studied fine art at Western Washington University (2004-2006)
MBA Marketing, Santa Clara University (1997)
BS Minnesota State University (1987)