David Moore - Painter

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David Moore - Painter is written by Kareen Anchen and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0648025403 (ISBN 10) and 9780648025405 (ISBN 13).

This book is an insight into the life and artwork of an Australian tonal painter, David Moore. There are 40 images, examples of direct, strong tonal painting. David Moore is a painter of the Australian Landscape and the humble 'Still Life'. His paintings have been privately collected, although somewhat under - represented in Australia's public art institutions. There is an accompanying essay by Arts Writer and Curator, Kareen Anchen. David is a man of stories, recounted in this book from interviews with the artist."Big moody skies and long shadows occupy the works on paper and oil paintings of Central Victoria and its towns - Castlemaine, Taradale, Malmsbury. David approaches every work as if it were the first, the joy of making a painting keeping it lively and fresh. David's open and receptive approach to life is his inner strength, and applied discipline is signature to his art. Keeping the eye working and seeing is the offering. We get a glimpse of ultramarine blue or a high key pink, a permanent rose ground slipping through to meet our eyes, which excites the experience of looking.Pots, jugs, bottles and bowls nestle on the table-top bench without too much reconstruction and fanciful plotting and planning. David says it's not about composition that is way too contrived. Rather, it is about seeing the subject matter and tweaking just a little bit".Moore is a 'painter's painter'. Over the years, he has met many of Australia's art world luminaries. Moore can be cited as a late 20th early 21st century Artist. David was primarily taught to paint by his father, Graham Moore, who adhered unerringly to the Melbourne Meldrum School doctrine. David is also a generous painting teacher having taught for over 30 years at Monsalvat, Australia's first artist's colony in Eltham, on Melbourne's leafy fringe. He now teaches tonal painting in Elphinstone, in central Victoria, Australia.David had a solid base from which to springboard his own painting oeuvre, and although he explored a few 20th century 'isms', David continues to return to reflective, quiet paintings which 'whisper from the wall'.