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Greg transplanted to Taos shortly after receiving his BFA from
University of Texas in Austin, Texas. Greg creates works mainly
in the mediums of oil and watercolor. Although originally know
as a watercolorist, Greg has been concentrating on oil for the
last five years. The switch in media has been a rebirth of sorts.
Moon states "that a change has allowed me to take on subjects
and technical problems that watercolor just can't fully actualize."
Greg does still create through his first love, watercolor. "You
never forget where you came from, and watercolor still informs
me in a quick and direct manner that is impractical for me in
oil."His watercolor style is more European, using more glazes
and modeling with very little "wet into wet", like
the California style watercolor which most Americans paint. Greg
feels that because of the difference in these styles watercolor
isn't given its proper respect in the United States. He believes
watercolor is much more popular in Europe because they do more
complete finished paintings. "Unfortunately most Americans
still view watercolor as a sketch material", says Moon.
Greg has been doing nocturnal
scenes for about ten years. He depicts night-time "because
there is a lot of ambiguity in it and, yeah, mystery." Working
with subjects outside the glare of sunlight gives him freedom
he admits - he's not subject to the "tyranny of realism".
He can create detail, then destroy it. The darkness that is so
evident in his paintings is an attempt to convey emotions of
his childhood and his love of the night-time. It draws him back
to when he was a child, "playing Kick-the-Can or Hide and
Seek and you hear your mother calling you when it's time to come
in."
Greg has been showing professionally
since 1989 in galleries and museum shows; at this point he has
been participated in over 70 exhibitions. |