This month Golden West College in Huntington Beach is hosting a show of five figurative artists. It’s the very gallery that last month featured Anne’s work. They wanted large pieces if possible. Below are the five pieces of mine that will be on display.

Beauty and Shoe, oil on panel, 47×35.5

Beauty and Shoe is a recent piece and represents yet another nuance of direction. A painting like this is as much about design as anything. It’s on a big piece of bamboo panel, the tooth of which took the paint in a most joyful way.

Flamenco Nimble 2, oil on canvas, 48×36

Here is another version of a painting I did (and sold) earlier. But it’s different in proportion and in approach to background with its random (not really) colors and shapes. Included are occasional gobs of thick paint and flying wisps of red for the sake of the motion of it all.

Fiesta Interlude, oil over acrylic on canvas, 60×48

As with Flamenco Nimble, the above image was captured first on my pocket camera. Anne and I were at the Orange County Fair and came across a whole group of Latinas dressed all folklorico, waiting their turn on stage. People ask me how long it takes me to make a painting; this one took me about a year. I’d thought it was finished; it even hung in a gallery. A year later I saw what it still needed. All the ribbons brought it to life.

Rwanda Woman, oil over acrylic on canvas, 60×36

This was from a photo I didn’t take. I’ve been to Africa a number of times but never to Rwanda. My original title was Rwanda Widow, which had more pathos, and more truth. I didn’t want her to seem too forlorn, but here I am telling it anyway. Remember when Rwanda suffered the scourge of ethnic cleansing? Though that’s stopped, the memories don’t go away quickly. Who knows what’s in the mind of this otherwise stately woman, sitting on church steps?

Portrait Gallery 2, acrylic on canvas, 68.5×51.5

Speaking of what goes on in a mind, who knows about this one either? It’s a viewer looking at a painting which looks back at her . . . all in the London Portrait Gallery. For more background of this and others from that experience, see e-gallery back issues here, and here.

Alcantara Trio in concert, with page turner (also a concert pianist)

Remember last month I talked about some of my art accompanying a chamber music concert? For review of that, see here. More, I wanted to share just a one-minute clip of their music. I think you’ll agree that those few instruments, in the right hands, put out a great deal of powerful sound. For that, click below.

Ruby Cheng and artist with her painting

As it happened, the painting, which I’d done without having seen the trio, was a very close rendition. On seeing the painting, pianist and trio leader Ruby Cheng was most blest (is that a word?). In the end, it had to be hers. So here it is, changing hands.

Hands, that’s what it’s all about, for making music and for making art . . . that and minds (not shown), and hearts (also not shown).

Until next time, bless yours.

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Ongoing and Upcoming Events

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Figurative Painters Show at Golden West College Fine Arts Gallery, featuring Hyatt Moore and others

Opening Reception, April 7, 7–9 pm
Continuing through April 28, Monday–Friday, 10 am–2 pm, Wednesday evening, 6–8 pm
15744 Goldenwest Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92647

Lecture/Demonstrations by Hyatt Moore

Tustin Art League
April 14, 2011, 7–9 pm
For info: 714-544-7715

Huntington Beach Art League
May 4, 2011, 7–9 pm

Lecture/Demonstration by Anne Moore

Orange County Fine Arts
April 28, 7–9 pm

Oceanside/Carlsbad Art League
May 13, 2011, 1:30-3:30 pm

Studio Show and Sale

Semi-Annual Spring Show at the House
May 7–8
33752 Big Sur, Dana Point, California 949-240-4642

Loosen Up Workshops for Painters

San Clemente, California, May 21–22
949-369-6603

Glen Eyre, Colorado, June 23–24
719-520-9494

Moore & Moore Art Gallery in Dana Point

Open by Appointment
949-240-4642

Semi-Private Coaching for Painters

Offering 2-hour sessions on Mondays, and now also on Saturdays
in the Hyatt Moore Studio, Dana Point
Call  949-240-4642

Printmaking Classes

In the Anne Moore studio, Dana Point
Call for info: 949-240-4642