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Healing Through Art Exhibit

Writer: sharonkingston
sharonkingston
Jan 15, 2012
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I am so honored to be participating in the Healing through Art Exhibit at Peace Health St Josephs Medical Center beginning Feb 3 and running through May 19th.  The Group Exhibit is titled Spring Reflections with many of my works carrying the theme of spring renewal and the cycle of life.  Last Fall while I was considering the works that would be appropriate for this exhibit and contemplating new works, I came across the poet Carl Dennis.  His words in the poem Unfolding are ever so relevant for those of us who struggle with our emotions, responses and understandings when accompanying a loved one through an illness–

This painting, 48 x 60 inches, will be part of the exhibit at the hospital, along with 9 other works that I’ll post periodically over the course of the next few weeks.  If you know of someone spending time at the hospital, encourage them to seek them out and read the words.


 
 
 

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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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