Driven by his roving, insatiable curiosity, energy never seems to have been a problem. He has never settled into a stylistic formula, and is most strongly motivated by the excitement of discovery. In 1995, for example, he found he wasn't able to paint landscape any more. He wasn't getting anything new out of it, so he stopped. Instead he began to think about why he liked nature, and painted the sprouting seed of a chestnut tree.
Nature is never just an image, it's always process.
It's a little surprising to see the initials RHA after Kingston's name. He does not strike one as a typical academician. By temperament, he's an individualist if ever there was one, and it is hard to imagine him joining an organisation for so long associated with the maintenance of conservative aesthetic values. In fact, it was the artist Kitty Wilmer O'Brien who originally encouraged him to show at the RHA, and his inclusion was part of a conscious bid to open out the academy. He has certainly played a significant part in doing just that.