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      • A Beautiful Melancholy
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      100 day project
      • Mar 17

      100 day project

      Every artist who takes on a challenge like the 100 Day Project has their own reasons for doing so. Specifically for me, I've been...
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      Inhale | Exhale
      • Feb 19

      Inhale | Exhale

      daybreak's murmurs and nocturnal whisperings, each 48x60" oil on canvas, sold this is the first pairing I conceived of and created with...
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      a new body of work
      • Feb 1

      a new body of work

      Since 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...
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      A Year With Rilke: May
      • Aug 24, 2021

      A Year With Rilke: May

      The 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...
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      A Year With Rilke: April
      • Jul 23, 2021

      A Year With Rilke: April

      One 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...
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      A Year With Rilke: March
      • Jul 10, 2021

      A Year With Rilke: March

      The Words: Allow your judgments their own undisturbed development, which, like any unfolding, must come from within and can by nothing be...
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      A Year With Rilke: February
      • Jul 7, 2021

      A Year With Rilke: February

      The Words: You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing that is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks as it divides and...
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      A Year With Rilke: January
      • Jun 28, 2021

      A Year With Rilke: January

      The Words: It seems our own impermanence is concealed from us. The trees stand firm, the houses we live in are still there. We alone...
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      fog suite 2: muslin
      • Mar 9, 2021

      fog 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...
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      fog suite 5: aegean teal
      • Mar 6, 2021

      fog suite 5: aegean teal

      The San Juan islands are considered one of the most beautiful places in the world, and they are here in my backyard. When shrouded in...
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      fog suite 2: beacon hill damask
      • Feb 28, 2021

      fog suite 2: beacon hill damask

      Fog Suite 2 consists of 3 16x16" paintings on cradled board. They all began with a gold gesso to give the underpainting that glimmer and...
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      fog suite 4: amazon soil
      • Feb 27, 2021

      fog suite 4: amazon soil

      Of all the colors from Benjamin Moore's 2021 trend palette, amazon soil was the most difficult for me to conceptualize its use in a...
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      Fog Suite 3: Potters Clay
      • Feb 25, 2021

      Fog Suite 3: Potters Clay

      The 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...
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      Fog Suite 1: Silhouette
      • Feb 24, 2021

      Fog Suite 1: Silhouette

      The poem which originally inspired the fog series is made up of suites. I decided to follow that same pattern when conceptualizing my...
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      The fog suite paintings
      • Feb 20, 2021

      The fog suite paintings

      The 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...
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      on creativity, part 1
      • Jun 11, 2020

      on creativity, part 1

      The artist Richard Diebenkorn is quoted in the 1950s as saying: "I want painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles,...
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      Blue Musings 1 - inspiration
      • Mar 21, 2020

      Blue Musings 1 - inspiration

      in 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...
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      Blue Musings 1 - ideas
      • Mar 20, 2020

      Blue Musings 1 - ideas

      I 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...
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      2020 #1
      • Jan 7, 2020

      2020 #1

      the air, a staircase for silence 30x30" oil on canvas, unframed Sharon Kingston, 2020 Kneeling Moments of great calm,Kneeling before an...
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      where the tattered tales of my life (could) live
      • Nov 21, 2019

      where the tattered tales of my life (could) live

      that's the name of this painting and here are some ideas of how it could live in your home
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          Sharon Kingston is a Northwest WA oil painter who uses the properties of her medium to create paintings that respond to both the atmosphere of her surroundings and poetry. This method of looking inward and outward and, in the moments of painting, finding her way on the canvas is her approach to creating paintings infused with poetry and the memory of landscape. The atmospheric element of her work is a testament to her desire to create spaces that are undefined, contemplative and allow room to reflect and accept uncertainty. Poetry, by nature open ended, is used both in the conceptualization of the work and as a part of the studio practice. The words of Rainer Rilke have informed Sharon’s work for many years, but she also turns to contemporary poetry when it resonates with her life. She uses layers of transparent color, reveals forms by concealing and unearthing pentimenti and suggests elements of landscape in her process.