Study I for Tiber Valley acrylic on paper 36 x 36” 2006

Study I for Tiber Valley acrylic on paper 36 x 36” 2006

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Artist Biography:
Marge Loudon Moody was born of British parents and raised in Kenya, East Africa. Moody moved to Scotland at age 14, where she completed her formal education, graduating from Dundee College of Art, Dundee, and Moray House College in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1982 she moved to the United States and has lived in Rock Hill, SC, for the past 22 years with her husband, Phil Moody, photographer, and sons, James and Paul.
Since graduating from traditional training at Art College in Scotland in 1972, Moody has continued to develop her work as a painter, first based on observation and then working in the medium of abstract collage for over 20 years. Her current work once again employs the medium of painting on canvas. Subject matter for Moody’s work varies widely, but can be described as being landscape-based. Everything that she experiences is potential for her work, whether at home or traveling, observed or imagined. Moody is actively engaged as an artist and exhibits locally, regionally and nationally and, formerly, in Great Britain.
Moody has been the recipient of numerous grants, notably from the South Carolina Arts Commission, the North Carolina Arts & Science Council, NC, and from Winthrop University, SC, where she is employed as a professor of art. Meritorious achievements include one-person exhibitions in Washington DC, two-person shows in NYC, having a piece of work purchased for the SC permanent collection and being selected for a summer residency at McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC in 2006.

 

 

Marge Loudon Moody

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About the Work:

“Subject matter for my pieces has always been closely related to, and inspired by things that I see in my surroundings, sometimes directly and sometimes subconsciously. Although not depicted in a literal manner, line, shape, color and space are intuitively manipulated until they find their exact place in the piece.

From my studio, high in the heart of down-town Rock Hill, I see wide panoramas and beautiful light, juxtapositions of old and new architecture, red brick and wrought iron. I strive to capture the essential nature of existing places imaginatively through drawing, painting and collage, using abstraction.”