Andrew Gordon Moore operates a studio and gallery in Harthaven, Oak
Bluffs, on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard. He is a
realist painter, working in watercolor, egg tempera and oil. As a
hunter, fisherman, sailor, and self-taught naturalist, the world
outdoors is his source. Andrew's work reveals this deep involvement in
and appreciation of island subjects studied through every season.
Occasionally, the artist journeys to coastal Maine and other locations
adding these images to his predominantly Vineyard-based work.
While Andrew encounters the subjects of his paintings during excursions
on the sea and in the field, he paints the final work in a controlled,
slowly-layered manner in the studio. Here, he surrounds himself with
objects from the field - rocks, grass, dried plants, fish, birds - and
numerous drawings and photo- graphs. Andrew then builds the idea from a
small sketch into the intricate final painting, blending studied detail
into a strong composition of color, tone, pattern and form.
Andrew's work is owned by collectors, mostly from New England, often
with ties to Martha's Vineyard. While he has shown on Newbury Street in
Boston, at various Vineyard galleries, and had a one man show at the
New Britain Museum of American Art, he prefers the direct contact
offered by his private gallery. Recently, he appeared in American
Artist Magazine, June 1998, and New England/ New Talent, an exhibit of
seventeen artists chosen from a field of five hundred at the Fitchburg
Art Museum.


