100 day project
Every artist who takes on a challenge like the 100 Day Project has their own reasons for doing so. Specifically for me, I've been...
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Feb 19, 2022
Inhale | Exhale
daybreak's murmurs and nocturnal whisperings, each 48x60" oil on canvas, sold this is the first pairing I conceived of and created with...
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Feb 1, 2022
a new body of work
Since completing my 'A Year With Rilke' paintings last summer, I've been mulling over what to do next. I always have a long list of...
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Aug 24, 2021
A Year With Rilke: May
The Words: I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them...Then the knowing comes: I can open to another life that’s wide...
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Jul 23, 2021
A Year With Rilke: April
One of the most iconic scenes from the Pacific Northwest is the mist on hills, or more poetically as I like to refer to it, the softness...
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Jul 10, 2021
A Year With Rilke: March
The Words: Allow your judgments their own undisturbed development, which, like any unfolding, must come from within and can by nothing be...
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Jul 7, 2021
A Year With Rilke: February
The Words: You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing that is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks as it divides and...
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Jun 28, 2021
A Year With Rilke: January
The Words: It seems our own impermanence is concealed from us. The trees stand firm, the houses we live in are still there. We alone...
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Mar 9, 2021
fog suite 2: muslin
"consider the space between thoughts: instants when the mind is inventing exactly what it thinks and the mouth waits to be filled with...
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Mar 6, 2021
fog suite 5: aegean teal
The San Juan islands are considered one of the most beautiful places in the world, and they are here in my backyard. When shrouded in...
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Feb 28, 2021
fog suite 2: beacon hill damask
Fog Suite 2 consists of 3 16x16" paintings on cradled board. They all began with a gold gesso to give the underpainting that glimmer and...
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Feb 27, 2021
fog suite 4: amazon soil
Of all the colors from Benjamin Moore's 2021 trend palette, amazon soil was the most difficult for me to conceptualize its use in a...
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Feb 25, 2021
Fog Suite 3: Potters Clay
The two paintings in fog suite 3 are both warm muddy colors: potters clay and rosy peach. I knew right away that I wanted them grouped...
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Feb 24, 2021
Fog Suite 1: Silhouette
The poem which originally inspired the fog series is made up of suites. I decided to follow that same pattern when conceptualizing my...
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Feb 20, 2021
The fog suite paintings
The idea for my first series of paintings for 2021 came about when cleaning up my studio at the end of last year. I was filing away...
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Jun 11, 2020
on creativity, part 1
The artist Richard Diebenkorn is quoted in the 1950s as saying: "I want painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles,...
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Mar 21, 2020
Blue Musings 1 - inspiration
in 2014 both Tori Amos and I turned 50. She wrote a song called '16 shades of blue' inspired by that milestone and Cezanne's painting...
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Mar 20, 2020
Blue Musings 1 - ideas
I knew there would be 16 shades of blue, but what did I really want to say about these blues? "blue's chromatic scale corresponds to an...
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Jan 7, 2020
2020 #1
the air, a staircase for silence 30x30" oil on canvas, unframed Sharon Kingston, 2020 Kneeling Moments of great calm,Kneeling before an...
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Nov 21, 2019
where the tattered tales of my life (could) live
that's the name of this painting and here are some ideas of how it could live in your home
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