Bridget Moore, Sideshow Blues, 2021
Gouache on mount-board, 24 x 32cm (framed)
Figurative painter Bridget Moore works primarily in gouache, as well as oils and mixed media. Her imagery explores the theatrical atmosphere of circuses and fairs, as well as the intimacy of domestic scenes. Memories of childhood, along with her imagination, inform Bridget’s works, which are often characterised by dramatic lighting which – in her words – ‘transforms figures’.
‘Sideshow Blues’ is one of a pair of framed paintings on card by Bridget included in our ‘Almost Blue’ 2024 group exhibition and online collection. In this atmospheric scene, a trio of figures perform with hoops on a small stage, watched by their little dog. As with many of Bridget’s works, lighting – supplied by a few small bulbs overhead - plays a key role in creating drama.
Bridget says: ‘I have long held a fascination with the atmosphere of the sometimes dark undercurrent to be found in circuses, side shows and travelling fairs, and the people that occupy these earthy arenas. I am attracted by the hidden that lies behind the sparkling artifice that goes out to perform.’
Bridget was born and brought up in Whitstable, Kent. She studied at Medway College of Design, Epsom School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. She has exhibited widely in many group and mixed shows across the UK including the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize and has exhibited in and also been an invited artist for The Discerning Eye. Her work has also been shown in the USA and China where it is now held in a permanent collection in Qingdao Art Museum.
Bridget has received several awards including the Greenshields Foundation Prize, the De L'aszlo medal and was a runner up in the Lynn Painter-Stainers Competition. She is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, the New English Art Club, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Small Paintings Group.
Bridget lives and works in Surrey.
Gouache on mount-board, 24 x 32cm (framed)
Figurative painter Bridget Moore works primarily in gouache, as well as oils and mixed media. Her imagery explores the theatrical atmosphere of circuses and fairs, as well as the intimacy of domestic scenes. Memories of childhood, along with her imagination, inform Bridget’s works, which are often characterised by dramatic lighting which – in her words – ‘transforms figures’.
‘Sideshow Blues’ is one of a pair of framed paintings on card by Bridget included in our ‘Almost Blue’ 2024 group exhibition and online collection. In this atmospheric scene, a trio of figures perform with hoops on a small stage, watched by their little dog. As with many of Bridget’s works, lighting – supplied by a few small bulbs overhead - plays a key role in creating drama.
Bridget says: ‘I have long held a fascination with the atmosphere of the sometimes dark undercurrent to be found in circuses, side shows and travelling fairs, and the people that occupy these earthy arenas. I am attracted by the hidden that lies behind the sparkling artifice that goes out to perform.’
Bridget was born and brought up in Whitstable, Kent. She studied at Medway College of Design, Epsom School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. She has exhibited widely in many group and mixed shows across the UK including the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize and has exhibited in and also been an invited artist for The Discerning Eye. Her work has also been shown in the USA and China where it is now held in a permanent collection in Qingdao Art Museum.
Bridget has received several awards including the Greenshields Foundation Prize, the De L'aszlo medal and was a runner up in the Lynn Painter-Stainers Competition. She is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, the New English Art Club, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Small Paintings Group.
Bridget lives and works in Surrey.
Gouache on mount-board, 24 x 32cm (framed)
Figurative painter Bridget Moore works primarily in gouache, as well as oils and mixed media. Her imagery explores the theatrical atmosphere of circuses and fairs, as well as the intimacy of domestic scenes. Memories of childhood, along with her imagination, inform Bridget’s works, which are often characterised by dramatic lighting which – in her words – ‘transforms figures’.
‘Sideshow Blues’ is one of a pair of framed paintings on card by Bridget included in our ‘Almost Blue’ 2024 group exhibition and online collection. In this atmospheric scene, a trio of figures perform with hoops on a small stage, watched by their little dog. As with many of Bridget’s works, lighting – supplied by a few small bulbs overhead - plays a key role in creating drama.
Bridget says: ‘I have long held a fascination with the atmosphere of the sometimes dark undercurrent to be found in circuses, side shows and travelling fairs, and the people that occupy these earthy arenas. I am attracted by the hidden that lies behind the sparkling artifice that goes out to perform.’
Bridget was born and brought up in Whitstable, Kent. She studied at Medway College of Design, Epsom School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. She has exhibited widely in many group and mixed shows across the UK including the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize and has exhibited in and also been an invited artist for The Discerning Eye. Her work has also been shown in the USA and China where it is now held in a permanent collection in Qingdao Art Museum.
Bridget has received several awards including the Greenshields Foundation Prize, the De L'aszlo medal and was a runner up in the Lynn Painter-Stainers Competition. She is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, the New English Art Club, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Small Paintings Group.
Bridget lives and works in Surrey.
