GALLERY

COLIN MOORE

“I was born on the coast. My earliest memories are of the sea, of the harbour where my great-grandfather was the pilot, of the sky and the ever-changing light on the Firth of Clyde. Encouraged by my great aunts' stories of my sea-faring ancestors, I was sure I’d be a sailor. Instead I got to be an architect and now I’m an artist. But there is still time.

Some of my pictures are suggested by places, by the beaches and harbours, towns and villages scattered around the coast of the British Isles. Some are a boy's celebration of boats, their canny construction and effortless grace. Others bring back memories; of trips to Glasgow Docks in the 'fifties, busy with the stuff of empire; of summer days on the decks of fishing boats learning the doggerel rhymes that sailors use to sort out right from left; of gales of wind and spindrift on the shore. Others are nothing to do with the sea. Nothing obvious anyway.

I paint and make prints, usually relief prints, often working in series in which the paintings and prints inform each other. The work is figurative, abstracted in colour and line to focus expression and invite an emotional response from the viewer.”