Eve Lamb
Art lovers can expect plenty of big clouds and back roads in the new upcoming solo exhibition by acclaimed Castlemaine painter, David Moore.
Soon to launch at Maldon’s Cascade Art Gallery, Moore’s upcoming exhibition is descriptively entitled Central Victorian Landscape
Paintings by David Moore and features more than 60 new works painted by the artist over the past year and a half.
“They’re all fairly spontaneous painting,” said the artist when the Express paid him a recent visit at his Castlemaine studio.
“I see them as little glimpses of moments in time.”
As the name hints, this new solo show explores big clouds and back roads – the moody, epic and poetic landscapes of Harcourt, Castlemaine , Maldon and surrounds with works rendered in oil and gouache.
“I’m interested in the quality of the light, the colour key and the tonal key of the paint,” says Moore, who was taught to paint directly from life.
He names three influential artists as his main teachers. These are his father Graham Moore, Harley Griffiths and Sir William Dargie – noted for his painting of HRH The Queen (dec).
In these latest works Moore has attuned his eye to the landscape he inhabits in the Central Goldfields – flat, rocky, vast, ravaged, and frequently moody.
“Each painting is a stand-alone moment captured,” he says
The exhibition will be officially opened at Cascade on October 1 by art curator and historian Dr Rosalind Hollinrake who has recently relocated to Castlemaine.
Dr Hollinrake is famed for the key role she has played in the rediscovery of artist Clarice Beckett who featured recently on ABC tv’s Great Southern Landscapes with Rachel Griffiths.
Central Victorian Landscape Paintings will be Moore’s second solo exhibition at Cascade and will run until November 13 with artist floor talks scheduled for Sunday October 23 and November 13.
