Material, Pigment, and Place
Moore's paintings grow from questions of place, belonging, memory, and the environments that continue to shape human identity. Rather than depicting a location directly, the work considers how a place becomes part of a person.
The studio process begins with material contact: acrylic, pigment, raw linen, raw canvas, charcoal, and the physical evidence of making. Texture is not treated as an effect, but as part of the emotional structure of the work.
Some works incorporate French powder pigments selected for their mineral richness and their connection to post-impressionist color traditions. The process remains tactile and responsive, allowing movement, memory, and the hand to stay visible in the finished surface.
Moving frequently and growing up without a known inherited lineage led Moore toward questions of identity from an early age. If home is not inherited as a stable origin, it can be built through attention, choice, memory, and relationship.
In the current body of work, Becoming Home, raw surfaces, earth-toned palettes, erosion, and wabi-sabi presence become a language for adaptation. Home is approached not as a destination, but as an ongoing process of becoming.
