Mar 17100 day projectEvery artist who takes on a challenge like the 100 Day Project has their own reasons for doing so. Specifically for me, I've been...
Feb 19Inhale | Exhaledaybreak's murmurs and nocturnal whisperings, each 48x60" oil on canvas, sold this is the first pairing I conceived of and created with...
Feb 1a new body of workSince completing my 'A Year With Rilke' paintings last summer, I've been mulling over what to do next. I always have a long list of...
Aug 24, 2021A Year With Rilke: MayThe Words: I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them...Then the knowing comes: I can open to another life that’s wide...
Jul 23, 2021A Year With Rilke: AprilOne of the most iconic scenes from the Pacific Northwest is the mist on hills, or more poetically as I like to refer to it, the softness...
Jul 10, 2021A Year With Rilke: MarchThe Words: Allow your judgments their own undisturbed development, which, like any unfolding, must come from within and can by nothing be...
Jul 7, 2021A Year With Rilke: FebruaryThe Words: You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing that is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks as it divides and...
Jun 28, 2021A Year With Rilke: JanuaryThe Words: It seems our own impermanence is concealed from us. The trees stand firm, the houses we live in are still there. We alone...
Mar 9, 2021fog suite 2: muslin"consider the space between thoughts: instants when the mind is inventing exactly what it thinks and the mouth waits to be filled with...
Mar 6, 2021fog suite 5: aegean tealThe San Juan islands are considered one of the most beautiful places in the world, and they are here in my backyard. When shrouded in...
Feb 28, 2021fog suite 2: beacon hill damaskFog Suite 2 consists of 3 16x16" paintings on cradled board. They all began with a gold gesso to give the underpainting that glimmer and...
Feb 27, 2021fog suite 4: amazon soilOf all the colors from Benjamin Moore's 2021 trend palette, amazon soil was the most difficult for me to conceptualize its use in a...
Feb 26, 2021Fog Suite 3: Potters ClayThe two paintings in fog suite 3 are both warm muddy colors: potters clay and rosy peach. I knew right away that I wanted them grouped...
Feb 25, 2021Fog Suite 1: SilhouetteThe poem which originally inspired the fog series is made up of suites. I decided to follow that same pattern when conceptualizing my...
Feb 20, 2021The fog suite paintingsThe idea for my first series of paintings for 2021 came about when cleaning up my studio at the end of last year. I was filing away...
Jun 11, 2020on creativity, part 1The artist Richard Diebenkorn is quoted in the 1950s as saying: "I want painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles,...
Mar 22, 2020Blue Musings 1 - inspirationin 2014 both Tori Amos and I turned 50. She wrote a song called '16 shades of blue' inspired by that milestone and Cezanne's painting...
Mar 21, 2020Blue Musings 1 - ideasI knew there would be 16 shades of blue, but what did I really want to say about these blues? "blue's chromatic scale corresponds to an...
Jan 7, 20202020 #1the air, a staircase for silence 30x30" oil on canvas, unframed Sharon Kingston, 2020 Kneeling Moments of great calm,Kneeling before an...
Nov 21, 2019where the tattered tales of my life (could) livethat's the name of this painting and here are some ideas of how it could live in your home