‘Mini Retrospective’ by Garry Moore

Ages ago I read that the Renaissance artists taught their students, who worked in the studio with them, to paint the background to the paintings in a middling colour, usually a reddish tone. This was supposed to stabilise the paint that one applies – one tries to harmonise the colours.

I try to arrange the colours throughout my paintings. It is not a matter of selection, but an attempt to harmonise each colour with the others.

I aim to have an element of interest within each work which can be developed.  I attempt to bring together different elements to create a rhythm of shape, colour, pattern and lines that repeat and echo each other.

Garry Moore