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Feelin’ a Transition coming on…

  • Writer: sharonkingston
    sharonkingston
  • Nov 26, 2012
  • 1 min read

Change is in the air.  I’ve been experimenting in the background for a few months now, and had a breakthrough in the studio over the holiday weekend.  Most certainly due to TIME–no exhibits for a while so studio time is plentiful, relatively speaking–and the viewing of Elles at SAM.  All empowering and inspiring.  Concept in mind, I’ll be working on a few smaller studies (show below, Secret Beach) before embarking on some really large scale pieces with the idea of showing them all as a body of work sometime in the Spring.  It is really quite wonderful to feel re-energized.  It is the painting season.  The skies are grey, the light is perfect in my studio, the radiator works and there are funds from recent sales to pay for surface, paint and brushes.  Thankful for everything!

Secret Beach I, 12 x 16 in, oil on board

Secret Beach II, 12 x 12 in, oil on board

 
 
 

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Source and technique have melded in my paintings in such a way that poetry, nature, color, light, mood and atmosphere are at one with my method of layering oil on canvas.  Void of visible brush stokes and seemingly lit from within, I have spent my career mastering my method and using the outer world as a shoreline to our inner longings.  My paintings, often paired with poetry that I am contemporaneously reading, offer an opening to the contemplation that accompanies those moments in nature where melancholic beauty quiets us.  Mimicry of an objective nature is less the goal than evoking the mood and atmospheres of our existence.  

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In my recent paintings the sea and sky have taken on a larger and more energetic role, giving me the space to explore a loose yet structured mark making—just as the sea and sky themselves are both chaos and order.  I find inspiration in scrims; the veil of fog, the glare of sunlight on water, the quieting as night approaches and everything is reduced to shadow and light, the revealing of a well of color at dawn and the heaviness and energy of a storm.

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I live in Bellingham and have a storefront studio in the downtown area.  I have been exhibiting my work professionally for the past 20 years.  My paintings are held in collections throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Australia.

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I have exhibited my work extensively in galleries and curated shows since 2008. I currently show my work at my storefront studio only--by choice-- and have no gallery affiliation at this time.  

Make an appointment to view paintings by sending an email here.

SHARON KINGSTON STUDIO

203 PROSPECT ST

Bellingham WA  98225

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day and time you'd like to come by.
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