South Downs Sienna V’
“David’s dramatic abstracted landscapes are a masterclass in light and tone, evoking the outdoors in its all awe, wildness and romanticism” – Mall Galleries, London SW1, 2018
“The winner is David Scott Moore. Judge Carol Burns, Archant Arts Editor says “The winning entry was chosen for its drama and powerful capturing of not only the landscape but also of how the light can shape that landscape. The work revels in the scale of the subject and plays with the concept of landscape through its square format. It is immersive: the viewer is seduced to come ever closer to the work, much as we are when the landscape is before us”. ” – On ‘Sussex Downs Sienna V’ – Sussex Life/ Paint Out – Landscape Painter of the Year 2016, 2017
Biography
David’s international buyer audience has widened to New York and he continues to exhibit widely across England and London, with English, Scottish and International collectors. He was born in Hammersmith, London, to an English mother and Scottish father, and brought up in Sussex. He believes his regular family visits to Lanarkshire, Scotland combined with a childhood living next to Sussex Forests sparked his love of the space, feedom and transience found in natural landscapes.
He has been invited to ‘ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2017’, Mall Galleries SW1 and been selected for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2016′, has exhibited at the ‘Discerning Eye Exhibition 2015’, reached final judging of the Lynn Painter-Stainers in 2015 and has been pre-selected for the RBA Open, 2016.
He has worked on the large scale sculpture works of Anish Kapoor and Anslem Kiefer. This experience, along with his correspondences with the Turner prize winner sculptor, Richard Deacon, developed a fascination of the poetry of sculpted form, space, shape and surface, which is reflected in his ideas of processes in painting.
After graduating with a BA Hons degree in Art from Manchester Metropolitan University He became an artist, a sculptor, lecturer and then a Landscape Painter based at the Phoenix Brighton Arts Studios. Here and on site, he paints landscapes and panoramas.
He won Sussex Life/ Paint Out – Landscape Painter of the Year 2016. He has been featured in Saatchi ‘Art artists to look at – Invest in Art, 2015, Saatchi Featured Artist, 2016 and ‘Saatchi Art’s ‘Artist of the Day’, 2016.
In 2015, he donated a work to the ‘Big Heart Auction’ at the Brighton Dome. He has been invited to gallery exhibitions and art fairs and has collectors in London and across the South and Midlands of England, and has work in collections as far as Sydney, Australia, China, Europe and the USA.
Exhibitions/ Prizes/ Commissions/ Publications
JP Art Exhibition, Blackheath, London SE3 03A, 1st March – 7th April, 2019
NEAC Annual Exhibition Final Round, London SW1, April 2019
Battersea Art Fair, Cameron Contemporary Art, C2, March 2019
Biscuit Factory Exhibition, Newcastle, 1st March – 26th May, 2019
Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, Winter Show, 2nd Avenue, Hove, December 2018 – January 2019
Mall Galleries online, London SW1, August – December 2018
New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey, November – December 2018
Mall Galleries online, London SW1, April-August 2018
Nadia Waterfield, Hampshire, Autumn 2018
Gallery 57, Summer Show, Arundel, West Sussex – May-August 2018
Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, Festival Show, May 2018 – June 2018, 2nd Avenue, Hove
Battersea AAF, Cameron Contemporary Gallery, London, March 2018
WAW Group Show, Putney Wandsworth, London, Jan. Feb. 2018
‘Making a Mark’ Art Blog review, 2017
The Discerning Eye Exhibition – ‘Invited Artist’ by Miranda Richardson (Actor, Art Collector and Selector) Mall Galleries, London, SW1, November, 2017
Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, Winter Show, Nov. 2017 – Feb. 2018, 2nd Avenue, Hove
Gallery 57, Group Show, Arundel, West Sussex, Winter, 2017/2018
Gallery 57, Group Show, Arundel, West Sussex, Autumn, 2017
‘Featured Artist’ Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery Summer Show, Hove, East Sussex, 2017
‘Landscape Painter of the Year Winner 2016’ – Sussex Life Magazine/ Paint Out, exhibition, articles and an interview, January & April 2017
Battersea AAF, Cameron Contemporary Art, London, Spring 2017
Saatchi Art – ‘Artist of the Day’, December 2016
Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, Winter Show, 2016, 2nd Avenue, Hove
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize National Exhibition, 2016, Mall Galleries, London SW1
Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, Summer Show 2016, 2nd Avenue, Hove
Phoenix Arts Association, Open Studios, May 2016
Saatchi Art, ‘New Artists Feature’, April 2016
ING/ Discerning Eye Exhibition 2015, Mall Galleries, London – selected by Stephen Doherty, Art Critic, Somerset House, London
ING/ Discerning Eye Exhibition 2015, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford, Surrey
Shortlisted for Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) Open Exhibition 2015, Mall Galleries, London, SW1
Saatchi Art chief Curator features ‘Sussex Downs Sunset XXVII’, ‘Invest in Art’, October 2015
Inside Sussex, Interview with artist, 2015
Artists’ Open Houses Exhibition, Brighton, 2015
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2015 shortlist, Mall Galleries, London, SW1
Brighton May Festival Open Houses 2015
Art In Brighton, Publication
Big Heart Charity Art Auction, Brighton Dome Theatre, May 2015
20 Painters Regional Exhibition, shortlist, 2014
A3 Exhibition, Phoenix Arts Association Gallery, Brighton Housing Trust Auction, November 2015
“I was drawn to ‘Sussex Downs Sunset XXVII’ so much is because of the incredible way it captures the mood and light of what is at first glance a dark day. It actually seems to get brighter as the day gets darker.” A. Barras, University of Brighton, 2016
“I loved the landscape paintings by David Scott Moore which have been selling very fast and I can well understand why!” – On ‘ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2017’ exhibits – ‘Making a Mark Blog’, Katherine Tyrrell (November 2017)
“We love the dramatic and intensely colourful sky!” ‘Sussex Downs Sunset Crimson I’ – Big Heart Auction Team, Brighton Dome, 2015
Statement I
‘Fragments of Time – en plein air.’
Painting outside gives a freedom allowing even a small painting to have a large sense of space. A painting of a landscape ‘en pleinair air’ (painted outside) is a live record with an intuitive way of painting, which helps to bring the viewer in closer to the painting and its surface by use of a first-person narrative. What I feel and think about the scene and what is communicated when the painting happens is somehow stored within, in a way that goes beyond the initial intentions of compositional choice or pre-selected colours. I think a live, quick outcome like this allows the paintings to be readily open to interpretation and then re-interpretation from viewers.
Sometimes in the studio, I layer paint and glaze which leads to stages of creation and destruction causing new surface tensions and new colour harmonies. The colours that are an on-going process, are in part formed by the use of memory, and in part form the use of subsequent new discoveries made afterwards in the studio. When developing the paintings this way, elements of the original on-site marks are purposely left visible underneath. The over-painted semi-abstract marks, layered glazes and built surfaces help to communicate latent essences that I have remembered of the original on-site experiences. Often the paintings are taken back outside to the original sites and painted further.
Influences – Kapoor, Kiefer, Diebenkorn, Patrick Heron, Kirkeby, Rose Hill, Martin, Macgill, Rembrandt, Corot, Turner, Klimt, Enkaoua, Gallen-kallela, Matisse, and Eardley.
Statement II
Painting outside, en plein air, allows David to draw directly from the subtle nuances of the rapidly changing light of a natural event or spectacle. He reacts quickly and therefore more intuitively. The distant horizons of the South Downs, New Forest and French and Tuscan panoramas have focal points from which to anchor the fleeting skies and to stage the ephemeral nature of atmospheric conditions. The rapid response of quick brush marks, layered textures and patterned rhythms capture the transition of moments in time. Some of the composition is left unpainted and abstracted. Furthermore, original marks painted at the initial event are left traceable on the surface leading the viewer’s eye from close to the surface to back to viewing the whole painting.
David wrestles with painting and his perceptions of a scene, and the painting process with which to grapple each live event in an en plein air session. He has to quickly respond, with little chance of turning back, to the changing time, atmospheric conditions, light and movement. He believes that regularly painting outside and revisiting locations helps with fluency and brings immediacy to the painting to better represent the transience of life and our connection with nature.
Education
Manchester Metropolitan University – BA Hons Art and Design 3D/WMCT
University of Brighton – PGCE PCE
Northbrook College – Art and Design Foundation in Art Studies/ National Diploma
Articles/Interviews/ Reviews
Marking a Mark Blog review commentary ING Discerning Eye 2017, Mall Galleries, London SW1
‘Landscape Painter of the Year Winner 2016’ – Sussex Life Magazine/ Paint Out, exhibition, articles and an interview, January & April 2017
‘Inside Sussex’ Magazine Artist Interview, July 2016
Big Heart Art Auction, Dome, 2015
Absolute Brighton, Art Wave Regional Festival Project Manager 2005
Richard Deacon, Turner Prize Winner Sculptor – letter correspondences,1995
Peter Dormer, Art and Design Critic – letter correspondences,1994
Arts Industry Roles
Sculptor – on large Anish Kapoor, Anslem Kiefer sculptures, MDM -2006-2011
Team leader Galleries – ‘Frieze Art Fair’, Regents Park, 2006
Fund Raiser -‘Arts Council’ fund, ‘Soundwave Festival’, Cultural Services, 2007
Project Manager -‘Artwave Visual Arts Festival’, Lewes District Council, 2006 –2007
Gallery Committee member – Phoenix Arts, 2004
Private Collections of Painting (outside UK)
Private Collection, New Jersey, USA
Private Collection, South of France
Private Collection, Tenerife
Private Collection, Portugal
Private collection, China
Private collection, Sydney, Australia
Lecturing
Lecturer, Collyer’s Sixth Form – A Level Critical Studies & Art and Design
Lecturer, Sussex Downs College & EVOC, Art National Diploma/ Foundation in Art Studies
Lecturer, Varndean College – Landscape Painting
Sculpture Tutor, Sussex Downs College
Lecturer, Sussex Downs College, Lewes- A AS level- Art and 3D, Fine Art
