John D Moore

Moore’s watercolour, 'Spring in the Mountains,' is an eye catching landscape. With an unconventionally low horizon line, the sky covers a vast expanse of the composition. Moore uses thin washes of subtle colour for majority of the image. In contrast, the relatively opaque, striking electric blue of the mountain ranges forms the focal point of the composition. He makes use of the blue grey colour of the paper, fading the sheer blue sky at the top of the work into the plain paper. In the foreground, Moore scatters light pink flowers as accents among the green shrubbery and brown earth. A tree cuts through the composition, breaking it into horizontal thirds. The work is enclosed in a thick black frame that appears to be done in marker.