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Trading: a Vermeer for a deChirico

Writer: sharonkingstonsharonkingston

The recession may have impacted the amount of art being purchased, however, I believe even more art is being made. I’m so lucky that other artists are in the same boat as I–and instead of filling our closets with our beautiful objects we’re being ever more active at trading our artworks. At the end of this downturn not only will I have developed multiple bodies of work, but I’ll have a fabulous collection of paintings/sculptures/glass by other Bellingham artists. Kay Little was a third of the trio in last month’s exhibit Third Person Plural at Works on Canvas. We traded paintings at the end of the show and I am now the proud owner of de Chirico Revisited. Kay went home with one of my paintings which is first in a new series that I’ll be working on over the next few months in addition to my Reading Rilke Series. The working titles of the series are Unpeopled or Presence/Absence… The works will be slightly smaller than this first off, but similar in content and style.

 
 
 

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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.

    People describe her paintings as ethereal, atmospheric, contemplative, PNW inspired, and filled with light and mood.  She has a storefront art studio in downtown Bellingham and welcomes you view her paintings in person.

    SHARON KINGSTON STUDIO

    203 PROSPECT ST

    Bellingham WA  98225

    studio gallery 
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