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 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...
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...
Sep 24, 2019when i am among the treesI haven't much cared about things in my work. What's always been more important is the atmosphere. Land, water, trees act as a frame of...
Sep 12, 2019the winged energy of disquiet and delight i, ii and iii(click on video to expand to full screen) interior views and a corresponding poem As once the winged energy of delight by Rainer Maria...
Sep 10, 2019What's on the easel today, 9/10I’ve been painting stormy seascapes. This is the third one in the series. They feature the colors cerulean blue French (a happy blue sky...
Sep 7, 2019Softness touching the earthIn 2018, after losing 3 members of my family in a short 14 months, I started painting a series of works titled 'softness touching the...