Blue Abstraction / mixed media on canvas / 42 x 36 inches

Interplay of Fire and Ice / acrylic, graphite, water soluble crayon on canvas / 42 x 38 inches

A Healing Place / acrylic on canvas / 40 x 30 inches

Cherokee Park Path / oil on canvas / 47 x 48 inches

Nancy Gordon Moore

Nancy recently retired after working almost 40 years as a clinical psychologist. Although she had no background in art beyond art history courses, she began painting in the late 80’s as a counterbalance to her professional life as a psychotherapist that was a left-brain-controlled world filled with words. Over the years, art became an increasingly central concept and she now feels so fortunate to be fully immersed in her identity as an artist. 

 Historically, Nancy worked in oil focused on still life and landscape. However she felt the need for new challenges, and in the past few years she began to work abstractly. She views her abstract work as the visual equivalent of jazz in that both celebrate "the verve, spontaneity and open emotion of improvisation" (Pareles, 1983).  Instead of musical notes, abstraction uses the essence of color, line, value and form to create something entirely unique. Her abstract painting is active, spontaneous and develops in response to the emerging image. She really donen’t know what it will be until it is finished.  It's a very physical interaction with the surface - building layers thick and thin, scraping back and even sanding.  Achieving a subtle complexity that works both from a distance but also up close is my goal.