Upcoming Art Class!

My March class at North Light Community Center in Roxborough is now open for enrollment. This facility has a nice big Arts and Crafts room, which I am familiar with from teaching for the after school program. I have some really fun ideas for this class and kids are going to take home a great little project each time we meet. I am looking forward to meeting my new group and seeing all our creations!
ABC's of Art and Art History (ages 8-14)
Learn more about North Light Community Center

I was going through an old hard drive of photos (while putting together my new website!) and I came across a whole series of photos of a painting that I completely forgot existed. I have no idea what happened to this painting, but I do remember making it. It is really not my style so it's sort of an interesting mystery to me. I think that in the end I just primed over it and reused the canvas. Anyhow, here's how it developed...

I have been a bit behind with blogging, as usual. I've had a stream of small commissions that keep me busy and lots of big life changes are finally settling down. Many exciting things are on the horizon for me and I am feeling pretty happy!
First off, I have been volunteer teaching at North Light Community Center in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia. Last week was my last session with their after school program and I am gearing up for a really exciting new class that will begin in March. I can follow up shortly with the final info for that program and how to sign up. Check out North Light's website here and check out the news on an upcoming documentary featuring North Light here!
I finally relaunched my website, which I had to rename (slightly) because I accidentally let my domain ownership lapse and some other artistic Moore snatched it up! I am working out the kinks on that project and will post a link for that soon as well.
The large geese wetscape for my painting swap with Ron Smythe is complete and needs to be delivered...

My latest landscape-meets-animal painting is still sketchy and has been developing really slowly, but I'm excited about the idea. The main tree in this painting was drawn from a huge limb that I could see out of my studio window in the old Mount Airy apartment. Now that I have moved, it has become a totally different tree. Also, I have been working on the thing for so long that the seasons have changed several times! I decided to accept this as part of the history of this painting, and let the background fracture into segments that each show the season during which they were painted. So far, we've got summer, fall and winter...I hope that spring doesn't creep in!

I am really excited to be doing an art swap with Baltimore artist Ron Smythe. I've always admired his  work and now I'll get to hang it in my new home! We aren't done working, but I'll make sure to post pictures when they are completed and swapped. Below is an image of what I'm working on. Visit Ron hereto see his beautiful work.

HELLO FRIENDS!
    During my weird year of being out of commission, I accidentally let my website expire! R.I.P. moore-art.com. I am still working on getting back to a creative life so I haven't yet launched a new site. I have been brainstorming ideas for a new URL and welcome any suggestions!

'From Ikea to I-me-a'

I was tickled to hear that one of my paintings was included in an article for The Inquirer last week! The online version can be viewed here (The second image of the gallery features my painting 'Red Paper' in an inventive interior by local designer Naomi Stein).

Welcome back to the blog!

I recently regained my energy after almost a year of illness and am really itching to get back to my creative life. I have had ideas bursting out of me and now I'll finally get to see them in person!!

It has been a really strange and difficult year, but I think the distance I gained from my creative work will prove valuable. I have a perspective I could have never earned from continuing to build off of my last concepts. During my hiatus, I completed a few simple little commissions that ended up being surprisingly challenging. I was working with different materials than I am comfortable with and the painting style was totally unusual for me. Those experiences opened up my range of ideas for new projects and reminded me that I am an artist of many mediums. I am still focused on oil painting, but have a renewed curiosity for mixing it up like I did in the early years.

I've never found myself in a position like this before. I sort of have a clean slate. All of my older work is now in the homes of customers or friends and I have a studio free of influence from the past...and I am really happy about it.

I took a look through my image archive today and wanted to post some work from different phases of my evolution...Here's a brief review of the last 5 years!

Chestnut Hill Local

Click here to read a recent article in the Chestnut Hill Local. I am quoted commenting on my friends at Common Grounds Coffee House in Mount Airy/Germantown.

My snow art.

Holiday Closing Reception

Join us December 3rd for art, music and refreshments to close my season long showing at Lovers and Madmen and to celebrate the coming holidays!