Artist Statement

Much of my work focuses on buildings and work structures that inform our landscapes. I’m interested in portraying stories of our industrial and work sites as they are abandoned and sometimes repurposed, focusing on the abstractions and patina that occur over time and use. Their footprint rarely has an aesthetic driver, and they can show who we are and why we came to be here in a way that other landscape art can sometimes leave out.

I look for what’s beautiful in places where it’s not important. Work and purpose are the drivers. I love the possibility of finding it in these unexpected places and drawing our attention to it in my work.

Biography

Moore’s family is from Digby, and she splits time between Stonehurst and her studio in Freeport, Maine. New Edinburgh, a family gathering place for years, inspires Moore’s oil paintings. She grew up on the northern border with Canada, when schools still closed for the potato harvest so kids could work (she wasn’t good). Parts of summers were spent on a trawler along the coast, where she learned to appreciate well-made boats, buildings, and gardens. A family move to Portland as a teenager connected her with fellow creatives. She studied art at Sarah Lawrence College, then traveled, living first in Paris, next New York, while working in the fashion industry. Moore returned to Maine to raise her son and continue artmaking. She has lived with MS for 25 years, experiencing haptic/tactile, energy, and balance issues. Moore continually finds new ways to paint, modifying her practice to accommodate these challenges.