Nancy Moore is a resident of Ridgefield and former editor at Yale University Press, Moore has been a “stealth artist,” having never studied art formally. In college, she took art courses as independent studies, wading her way cautiously from black-and-white pen and ink drawing into the sea of color under the guidance of Professor George Chaplin, a student of Josef Albers at Yale. 

The materials used in the paintings you see here are Crayola crayon, watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite. The crayons are applied within the barest pencil outline of a creature. When the watercolor is laid on top, a wax relief, or batik effect, is created. Layers of crayon, paint, and pencil are drawn and painted until a fabric of woven texture appears. Recently, Nancy has been shifting her focus from images of animals to the concept of transformation and evolution from animal to human, playing with the idea of shape-shifting and creation myth. She’s only just beginning . . .