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The Atmospheres of our Existence

  • Writer: sharonkingston
    sharonkingston
  • Apr 27, 2011
  • 1 min read

Enticed to Continue, 24 x 30 in, oil on canvas, Private Collection Atmospheric and Abstract Landscape Painting by Sharon Kingston Inspired by the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

And I thought the titles I derived from Rilke’s words were poetic!  I’m going to have to use this phrase sometime, the atmospheres of our existence, because it really does sum up what my intent is and how I approach the questions I have about it all.  Here are the words– and I really do cherish hearing these– from the collector who is adding this painting to her art collection.

Enticed to Continue…is wonderful!!!  I’m very excited to have added another piece of your work to my collection.  I don’t know how you do it, but your paintings are indeed poems on canvas.  As an artist you are wonderfully creative with your use of color, with your technique, and most of all with revealing the atmospheres of our existence with ease and grace and a certain splendor that is irresistible.

 
 
 

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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.  

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