Mike Moor West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
As a printmaker and illustrator I want to create powerful and poetic art that can become a springboard for the viewers' imagination. Despite appearances, the images are grounded in reality, often beginning as drawings made from life. My art frequently combines concerns about what is happening on the world stage with a spiritual awareness. It is a kind of visionary diary.
I have always enjoyed stories, particularly epic, symbolic dramas that humble us. If the work in some way communicates that sense of awe with a tenacious grit, then I'm grateful. The frequent psychological ambiguity reflects a preference for questions over resolutions.
I have focused on the drypoint technique of etching for its visceral, tactile quality. I enjoy the sheer graft and resistance of the metal tool cutting into aluminium, which allows a delay between thought and action. It's a perfect medium for creating the kind of craggy, spiny textures essential to these often haunting but earthy prints.
Artwork
Beasts and Beings Catalogue, Catalogue, 2021, £14
The Itinerant Horse, Monoprint, 2019
The Man Who Wasn't There (From the Quandary Heads series), Monoprint, 2013
Vulnerable Family Under A Stormy Sky, Ink and watercolour, 2011
Refugee Child (from The Victims of War series), Etching, drypoint and watercolour, 2010
Flight, Etching and gouache, 2018
The Silenced Angel , Charcoal pencil, 2010, £700 Unframed
Disquiet in the Civic Hall , Drypoint Etching , 2018, £350 Unframed
Circe and the Boars - Statues are being Knocked off their Pedestals, Drypoint Etching , 2019, £350 Unframed
Sleeping Greyhound, Drypoint etching with Watercolour, 2021, £350 Unframed
Scene from the Gothic Vaults, Etching with templates, 2021, £350 Unframed
The Prisoner, Drypoint Etching, 2021, NFS
Black Sun Mutations, Drypoint Etching , 2021, £350 Unframed
Ecce Homo, Drypoint Etching with Watercolour, 2021
Night, Drypoint Etching with Watercolour, 2021
Moonlit Herd, Etching with Monoprint, 2020, £200
Running Crow, Drypoint Etching , 2018
Label illustrations for The Prisoner Wine Company, Drypoint etchings on copper, 2020, NFS (I am unable to market the originals)
Ecce Homo, Drypoint Etching , 2021, £250 Unframed
Stormy Night, Etching , 2021, £250 Unframed
The Island, Etching, 2000
Trials of Faith, Charcoal, acrylic and gold oil paint, 2021, £550 Unframed
Prophet in the Wilderness with Outriders, Charcoal, acrylic and gold oil paint, 2021, £600 Unframed
Sleeping Model with Flamboyant Toad Hat, Kiwi and Ptarmigan, Charcoal and Acrylic, 2021, £600 Unframed