Sharon Kingston

Oil Painter

Bellingham, Washington

Void of visible brush strokes and seemingly lit from within, Sharon has spent her career mastering her method of using the outer world as a shoreline to our inner longings. Her painting’s, often paired with poetry that she is contemporaneously reading, offer an opening to the contemplation that accompanies those moments. Mimicry of an object is less the goal than evoking the mood and atmospheres of our existence. In Kingston’s recent paintings the sea and sky have taken on a larger and more energetic role, giving her the space to explore a loose yet structured mark making . She finds 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.