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In Situ

  • Writer: sharonkingston
    sharonkingston
  • May 28, 2010
  • 1 min read

So fun to be invited to drink wine, talk about travel with new friends and view my artwork in situ. Shown here my painting Loss of Empathy, which went home with Christine last October. She has been a frequent visitor to the gallery during first friday artwalks and I simply adore her and couldn’t be more thrilled to see how fabulous the painting looks in her home.

I only created a couple of these large fruit paintings. For years I’ve been teaching a lesson on Magritte’s big apple to elementary age students and needed to get all that skill with creating form onto a canvas. Groupings of fruit can create a narrative and when my husband suggested that I pull out the apple next to the bruised looking one on the far right, the meaning was made apparent. Group Think,

my pear painting, is still available for purchase. Sitting on my mantle at home right now, but as any artist will tell you, everything’s for sale. Contact me if you’d like to come over and see it.

Here are a couple more shots of paintings in their new environs.


 
 
 

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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.  

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.

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.

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

studio gallery 
open by appointment

please send me a text with the
day and time you'd like to come by.
360-739-2474

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