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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...
Aug 24, 2021
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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...
Jul 23, 2021
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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...
Jul 10, 2021
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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...
Jul 7, 2021
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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...
Jun 28, 2021
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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...
Mar 9, 2021
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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...
Mar 6, 2021
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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...
Feb 25, 2021
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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...
Feb 24, 2021
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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...
Feb 20, 2021
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2020 #1
the air, a staircase for silence 30x30" oil on canvas, unframed Sharon Kingston, 2020 Kneeling Moments of great calm,Kneeling before an...
Jan 7, 2020
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when i am among the trees
I 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 24, 2019
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the 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 12, 2019
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What's on the easel today, 9/10
I’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 10, 2019
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Softness touching the earth
In 2018, after losing 3 members of my family in a short 14 months, I started painting a series of works titled 'softness touching the...
Sep 7, 2019
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