Wendy Moore

My name is Wendy Moore
As an Australian based artist, my mission is to capture the raw beauty of our our country’s diverse environment .My new series of artworks are mainly large paintings on Natural Linen based on floral tapestries with the view to immerse yourself into the lush and diverse flora and foliage of Australia. With Linen as my canvas I am able to explore different applications and techniques with my palette. The paintings often feature intricate floral ( flowers and blooms ) and foliage with bursts of vibrant colours creating a harmonious tapestry of nature.
My work is a statement of natures Beauty, but also a reflection of my individuality as an artist. Our unique landscape is a constant inspiration for me , especially the rich colours of the outback where I grew up.
I hope with my artworks to bring a touch of Australia’s stunning natural world into our lives in a home or office
I am now painting fulltime in my new studio in Teneriffe Brisbane
ART PRIZES
WINNER BLUETHUMB FOUNDERS AWARD 2023
WINNER : the Courier Mail Art Prize 2004 (Landscape section)
WINNER Townsville Pacific Festival 1978 (Under 20)
FINALIST Warana Art Prize 1979 ( second place)
WINNER Warana Art Prize 1978
I Love painting.

WENDY MOORE
QUEENSLAND ARTIST

INTRODUCTION :

Wendy Moore has been painting and drawing since her primary school days. She started taking her ‘gift’ seriously while attending the Queensland College of Art in the 1970’s, where she developed a very personal and individual way of expressing her views and concerns about life and society and every day surroundings.

Her paintings of that period (mid-1970’s) strongly reflect people’s attitudes and social behaviour of that era: overweight women lounge on couches – men sit in the pub playing cards - people laze and sunbath on the beach – and such. These paintings were Wendy’s way of bridging the gap between her sheltered life in the outback Queensland town of Blackall, and her new, much larger and more fascinating world in Brisbane.

Wendy’s time at Art College was fruitful, and broadened her horizons in many ways. She started to work with different media, creating new textures, and experimenting with new techniques.

Wendy’s first love has always been painting on canvas, but she is also a very accomplished painter of ceramics, leatherwork and jewellery. Her ceramic have been often exhibited, and have sold in many leading decorator shops and design agencies in Brisbane and on the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.

During the last few years, Wendy has returned to full time painting on canvas and a very different, more mature and confronting style has emerged through these works. Her paintings don’t start out purposely to make a social comment, but very often they end up doing so. Her very strong ties with the Australian landscape have emerged and are allowed ‘free run’.

Wendy’s paintings almost often have some human form in them – emphasising the relationship between people and the environment. Very rarely do her people dominate the landscape, but they are always an integral part of it.

Her figurative paintings, however, are bold, distinct, and very often confrontational – sometimes very much ‘in your face’ – but never do they mock sensitivities. They depict a range of emotions - sitting between abundant joy and deep despair. There is also fun and comedy – a great love of life – to be found in her works. Wendy has been able to successfully merge people and emotions in with landscapes.

The canvases in her latest paintings are generally large; the colours she uses in these paintings are bold and very strong – occasionally reflecting the artist’s undeniable Australian outback heritage in the use of these strong colours.

BIOGRAPHY :

1958 Born (Blackall, Queensland)

1960’s Attended Primary School at Blackall State School – during which time attended Queensland’s “Flying Art School”.

1971-1973 Attended Rockhampton Girl’s Grammar School as a Boarder

1974-1975 Attended Clayfield College in Brisbane and completed Senior Education

1976-1978 Studied Fine Arts at Queensland College of Art, Seven Hills in Brisbane, majoring in painting.