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Scott Moore
Reflected in the art of Scott Moore are his interests in history and the landscape,as well as his lifelong devotion to painting. Scott grew up outside of Washington, D.C., where both of his parents were artists. His mother was a fashion illustrator and his father was an exhibit designer. Scott grew up drawing, and knew from an early age he wanted to be a painter. The Moore home was in rural Maryland, and as a boy Scott spent his time exploring the acres of surrounding woods. His early passion for history developed while listening to his father tell stories of his experiences in World War II and of his grandfather's experiences in the Civil War. The family moved to the coast of Maine in the 1960's. In high school Scott traveled around New England on both the debate and football teams. He attended Maine College of Art (then the Portland School of Art). In art school much of Scott's painting instruction was in Abstract Expressionism. But Scott's love of history and landscape lead him to study French Impressionism, French Academic painters of the nineteenth century, and American masters, especially Edward Hopper. After college Scott moved to Washington, D.C. and began showing at the Torpedo Factory in Arlington, Virginia. In the early 1980's he moved back to Maine, where he lives today with his wife and daughter in a nineteenth century farmhouse overlooking Penobscot Bay. Scott has taught at the Farnsworth Museum of Art and served as a consulting artist for Maine's Percent For Art Program. Scott Moore paints in New England, the southeast, and Colorado. His paintings combine techniques and ideas of nineteenth century masters with contemporary ideas of palette and composition. Moore's paintings are in corporate collections throughout the United States and in private collections here and in Europe.
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