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Dianne Taylor Moore
Artist Statement
The heart of my painting is the natural world and the soul is vivid color. Bringing images of landscapes and animals to my canvases allows me to relive the joy of discovering them for the first time. The rich colors I choose express my feelings about the subjects in a concrete way. “Exaggerated reality” is the label that I use to describe my work.
About the Artist
My pastel paintings are plein air works. They are done on the site and are composed of bold energetic lines and colors. I use Wallis pastel paper that I paint black. It has slight sandpaper grit to the surface that grabs the pastel chalk. Just as in my oil paintings, under painting is very important to the final result. The colors glimmer through to the surface and make the final image “pop”. Sizes vary from 9 inches by 12 inches to 24 inches by 28 inches and up. “Immediate” is the word that encompasses the finished piece. Being able to complete a painting in one sitting is exhilarating.
Through the years many artist have guided my hands, Vincent Van Gogh, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keefe, Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. Ms. Shapiro, in a sense, gave me permission to use the skills I acquired as a child. She used real textiles in her early paintings. In my southern family I was taught to work with textiles and to make do with whatever was at hand. Van Gogh’s brush strokes and colors have influenced me all along the way, especially with my pastel pieces.
I work in the loft of a renovated barn. Above my large studio window is a borrowed ancient proverb. I have adopted this as my personal working goal. “To cast a shadow one must stand in the light”. It takes practice!
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