During the 30 years she has been painting this scene she says the work has become more abstracted. “The process fought for itself,” she says. “I’m more flexible. It’s not so much painting a particular place, but painting a par-ticular emotion, allowing it to express itself.” After an early career in fashion design from the late 1960s until the mid-80s, Moore studied art at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. During the 1990s she was design coor-dinator, product designer, art director and photo stylist for VIETRI, Inc. in Hillsborough, then studied painting at the National Academy School of Fine Arts in New York City. The abstract expressionist Richard Diebenkorn greatly influenced her style. “He was a huge inspiration for me,” she says. “Applying his methods, I see the landscape as spaces and not as hunks of grass — abstract layers and spaces that become the landscape.” That distillation of snaking water through fields of grass and open sky into bands of color is Moore’s idiom easily recognized. In the past year she was commissioned by an American art consultant from Houston, who was hired by Duke University Medical Center, to create work for the new Duke Cancer Center in Durham. Floating on the Breeze, 20 x 20 inches, oil on canvas. 54 WBM september 2014
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