GEORGIA MOORS: Paintings and Drawings, 2017-2026

Working with flowers, leaves, seeds and roots, Georgia Moors dries her subjects for several months starting her process with her subjects far before she begins painting and drawing. Over 4-6 months she produces images with careful scrutiny using a range of media including egg tempera and chalk on poplar panels, or graphite and watercolour on paper. These techniques play with the temporal evolution each work represents. We start with the life cycle of the plant which is suspended in time from when it is plucked and dried before witnessing the culmination of the painted or drawn surface being worked on over many months, further crystallizing its form in reverent detail. 

Roots fall from the top of the image in delicate tendrils, while small sprouts curl out from the plant as though it has found new life in the painted panel. Bright stalks of grass stand with almost luminous contrast against dark backgrounds, with their individual seeds picked out in minute detail. The golden flowers of dried achillea draw the eye up the length of the plant, over the curling edges of crisp leaches rendered in fine graphite and the exposed roots of the woody stem. It rests on the paper, where fine shadows give the viewer pause as every considered mark makes up an almost tangible rendering of the dried plant. 

Although technically astonishing, Georgia Moors’ work is never cold. It blooms with joy. Colour, texture, the intricate dance between one element and another. There is humility and quiet attention here but there is also delight. This artist looks and marvels and then celebrates. Her work is a hymn to nature but also to human creativity and diligence, to the slow, painstaking revelation of these marks.