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New Palette

  • Writer: sharonkingston
    sharonkingston
  • Jan 19, 2011
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Back in October I wrote a post about visiting Room 7 at the Tate Modern in March 2008 and sitting on the bench pivoting from right to left from Joan Mitchell’s Number 12, to Claude Monet’s late water lily to Mark Rothko’s Untitled 1951 citrus beauty. These three artists’ works are the ones I turn to often when seeking inspiration, a solution to a visual problem or just wanting to immerse myself in a beautiful painting. I was thinking of them back in October with a desire to adjust my palette. This has been a long process and the painting that I’m working on now, Living the Questions II, is the closest I’ve come to really lightening the colors I use and keeping the painting charged with mood and mystery and atmosphere. (sorry, iphone image.) The dark section is still a question for me and I’m going to let it sit a bit before putting it back on the easel. But since making this post and looking again at these fabulous works of Joan, Mark and Claude, I’m thinking violet…



 
 
 

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    Sharon Kingston is a Bellingham WA (Washington) based artist.  As an oil painter she uses the properties of her medium to create paintings that respond to both the atmosphere of her surroundings and poetry. This method of looking inward and outward and, in the moments of painting, finding her way on the canvas is her approach to creating paintings infused with poetry and the memory of landscape. The atmospheric element of her work is a testament to her desire to create spaces that are undefined, contemplative and allow room to reflect and accept uncertainty. Poetry, by nature open ended, is used both in the conceptualization of the work and as a part of the studio practice. The words of Rainer Rilke have informed Sharon’s work for many years, but she also turns to contemporary poetry when it resonates with her life. She uses layers of transparent color, reveals forms by concealing and unearthing pentimenti and suggests elements of landscape in her process.

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