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want the change, 36x36" oil on canvas, framed

want the change, 36x36" oil on canvas, framed

from Sharon's 'A Beautiful Melancholy' body of work, this is want the change.  36x36" oil on canvas framed in clear maple with black interior floater frame.  Inspired by these words from Rainer Rilke  “Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears.The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much as the curve of the body as it turns away.What locks itself in sameness has congealed.Is it safer to be gray and numb?What turns hard becomes rigid and is easily shattered.Pour yourself like a fountain.Flow into the knowledge that what you are seekingfinishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins.Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive. And Daphne, becoming a laurel,dares you to become the wind.- Sonnets To Orpheus, Part Two, XII”

    $2,350.00Price

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    360-739-2474 or

    email sharonkingston@me.com

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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

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    360-739-2474

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