The award winning artist bernie moore is a figurative oil painter who enjoys portraying people in everyday life.  His recent work is inspired from seeing Breton dancers in their traditional costume, where he sensitively captures and interprets their fleeting glances and turn of gait, to express his personal imaginative narrative.  

Bernie has a fascination for capturing body language:

"I try to capture the unrestrained expressions of lone or grouped figures. How they walk, turn, sit, and position themselves, often unwittingly reflecting their feelings towards everyday situations.  I love exploring the power of greys, muted colours, and ambiguous edges which are sympathetic to my working process in creating atmosphere, empathy, and realism.  I'm influenced by the naturalists and the romantics, finding the fluid drawings of Bastien Lapage and passion of the English Victorian painters, such as Leighton and Waterhouse, very seductive."