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THE COLBORNE CHRONICLE â€" Thursday, September 29, 2005 â€"7 NEews j Kingston artist By Bos Owen mm _ t us 48 s chronicle@belinet.ca o 0k +o C i in | $ . § (@®**& *\ 0 1 Kingston painter Sharon â€"| [ * / _ ®R.0 Â¥ g00 Thompson opened a seven |_ MBE . ie . [ week show at the Colborne _ | @ %}y fleay | | Art Gallery last Saturday. i. 1i se im L y t | _ _It is clear in the 10 | | s sBmo We | paintings that the artist | w P i'“ié;«;fi,; > t f loves colour. In fact, it is the |_| 110 } w s â€" se : h es 18 3e 4 e o d B 2 / 4 NS NR reason why she is a painter 16 ‘f? PP 7 § B9 n O 6 | and not a sculptor. \s mlesa®..! 1 | 3 > 1 | _ Her works show a deep || oC w oo uk | interest in forms and in life; | Sar ‘@;é;_‘,‘v ‘"v2 t cipl: (Feral y that things have sparkle and _|| _‘ _ fL\ e mt | individuality and also go _ _ 4 NE :;5, t .. Mhsiee together. It has been easyfor _ | _ > _ . / \ es us t * / /7 the artist to make things go _ _ _ _ ;/ } | Cglar together; she has been i O . ¢ 42000 |. } learning how to make them _ [ _ _ i @4 0_ 1| ’ | sparkle as well. 3<p T ;,% sell ( f Ms. Thompson believes it |__â€" f~ _ 3 i 3 _ aa. is the challenge of all living ce tlivsl U things and people on the | | K _ | O $ s j( planet together. They can‘t | | & / 10. hm 55‘_'. 1 avoid the need to get along, | [ MB &‘ > 5& & "} j but also . must have [ O N) se f;‘%&;’;}fi?;’;, | individual life forces. U . <~ B . | The artist statement on _| | %2 f«g/‘é‘ P ; :; j her website states, "My | LMR _ . [3 is 1| 3 personal roots as a painter. | **®@ 2/ / t *Liz I draw on two quite different |____. e o cmsseieh , j\ traditions â€" the simple | : , m . \ shapes and warm colour of Eap t 2 3 Giotto and the radiance of Pwoto sy Bos OweN Turner who gave to us a _ Kingston artist Sharon Thompson stands beside one of her | world in which everything _ works at the Colborne Art Gallery last Saturday. *was so saturated with light that it becomes a large She says the concrete wonderful place to be as an radiant space. allows her to "keep the artist". a "I do not use images. I _ history of her paintings". She says when you‘re want to bypass the thinking The archacology of her younger you have to explore analytical mind. Instead I paintings is important too. it all. As you get older you use abstract shapes inspired She wants to keep the let some things slip away; by the simple naive sense feeling and thought that it‘s a kind of purification. that Giotto has of shape. â€" were part of her art. Ms. Thompson has been These abstract shapes create Ms. Thompson has a long in solo and _ group |‘echoes‘ in the mind of the . history as a landscape and exhibitions across North ; viewer. Lcombine this with _ stillâ€"life painter. She knows America. Her worksâ€"are 8 | radiant space as given to us â€" these are easier to paint and found in offices across by Turner and more to sell. She thinks her Canada. She has received | recently by Rothko. This abstracts are her best work. numerous Ontario Arts radiance ‘gives the They take forever to create Council grants. > implication of infinity" to _ and take a lot out of her, but Her studio is at 307 | the simple shapes‘." she realizes that they‘re who Frontenac St. in Kingston, Ms. Thompson‘s works â€" she is. ~Rer website is | are oil on canvas. She uses "It‘s â€" not â€" important www.sharonthompson.ca. | concrete in some for texture _ whether people buy or like The show ends on and luminosity. her work," she says. "It‘s a â€" November6. W