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the drifts of melancholy, 36x48" oil on canvas, unframed

the drifts of melancholy, 36x48" oil on canvas, unframed

Original oil on canvas.  36x48". 

 

Absolute September

“How hard it is to take September
straight – not as a harbinger
of something harder.

Merely like suds in the air, cool scent
scrubbed clean of meaning – or innocent
of the cold thing coldly meant.

How hard the heart tugs at the end
of summer, and longs to haul it in
when it flies out of hand

at the prompting of the first mild breeze.
It leaves us by degrees
only, but for one who sees

summer as an absolute,
Pure State of Light and Heat, the height
to which one cannot raise a doubt,

as soon as one leaf’s off the tree
no day following can fall free
of the drift of melancholy.”
–Mary Jo Salter

    $3,000.00Price

    studio/gallery

    open by appointment only

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    360-739-2474 or

    email sharonkingston@me.com

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    NO REFUNDS or EXCHANGES ON ORIGINAL PAINTINGS  and FRAMES.

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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 
      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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