PSYCHEDELIC SURFER COVERS SPOTLIGHT MAGAZINE

Artist SPOTLIGHT: Christine Adele Moore’s mission is to bring joy

By Staff | on July 01, 2022

By Kathy O’Flinn, Managing Editor, Spotlight News Magazine
kathy@swspotlight.com

When art festivals were canceled due to the pandemic, so many artists were feeling unsure about the future. Artists didn’t know how they were going to sell their work or when the shows were going to start up again.

“I was feeling so much anxiety, tension. I needed something to paint to calm me down and to uplift me,” said Bonita Springs artist Christine Adele Moore. “So I just started thinking about what I was grateful for and I started painting very simple blue flowers. I was just trying to make myself feel better.”

Those paintings really did work for her. She called it her Breathe Series. The more she did that, painting from a place of gratitude, it made her happy and helped her get over her anxiety.

“Now it seems to be resonating with people – the joy and gratitude that I’m putting into it,” she said. “It’s made me paint with more joy and happiness than I have in my entire life and having so much more fun painting now than I ever have.”

Moore is no newcomer to art. For years she painted murals, working on scaffolding to reach high places. Today she still does murals but on canvas and she still does commissions when festival artgoers would prefer a horizontal rather than vertical painting or a larger or smaller size or there is color they would like to emphasize.

“Psychedelic Surfer,” which appears on this month’s cover, is a turtle that brings smiles to those who see it at shows. Moore selected the colors first before she knew what she was going to paint.

Working with acrylic paint and applying resin between the layers, Moore adds all kinds of reflective material (copper leaf, gold leaf, broken mirror flake and aluminum flake) which is embedded in the resin. As light hits the painting, it brings life from within. To complete the painting, Moore applies a couple of good coats of quality varnish to help seal it all in.

When she set out to do a tree diptych, it evolved very viscerally, she said. In “Dancing Under My Favorite Tree,” she used lots of gold and copper to give the leaves and tree trunk a very shimmery glow and the little black dancing figure happened completely without intention. That’s where the title came from.

Continue reading the full article in the July Issue of Spotlight News Magazine.