| Dianne Moore |
BIOGRAPHY OF DIANNE MOORE, ON-GLAZE PORCELAIN ARTIST 14690 Chapel Road Lorena, Texas 76655 1-254-732-0077 Creating has always been an important part of Dianne Moore’s life. As a Drafter and Technical Illustrator, she has thirty years of working in Aerospace, Food Processing, and the Semiconductor Industries. After a successful career, Dianne was forced to retire when she become disabled with Fibromyalgia. She tried her hand at On-Glaze painting and it became her passion. Porcelain painting is a lost, kiln-fired art. Dianne takes seminars 3-4 times a year with world renowned instructors. She paints in the American style of porcelain enhancement. Always a lover of all types of flowers, Dianne grows roses and tries to capture their beauty on porcelain canvases. Porcelain paint is translucent, so it requires a layering technique, followed by firing the piece to 1500 - 1600 degrees. Dianne paints in a lovely studio her and her husband built, that is part guesthouse and part studio, complete with pedestal sink covered in roses. Classes have been taught at Baylor University and McLennan County Community College. Demonstrations have been done at McGregor High School for the Art Class and Smith Art Galley in Temple. Dianne has exhibited her work at numerous places in Waco, including the Carleen Bright Arboretum, Baylor, McLennan Community College and local gift shops. A month long exhibit was held in November at the Smith Art Gallery at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas. Her art is also permanently displayed in local area homes as backsplashes in kitchens, island tops, floor tiles, lamps and porcelain lavatories. Currently work is exhibited and for sale at Main Street Fine Art Gallery in Salado. Dianne is a member of International Porcelain and Art Teachers Association. As an artist of International merit, Dianne has had articles and pictures published in the China Decorator Magazine, Australian Porcelain Decorator Magazine and the Porcelain Artist Magazine. She continues to accept commissions and students on a limited basis. |
| Creativity and Inspiration Where does it come from? It is not possible for me to go out to my studio, sit down and commence to paint just because I want to. The painting would be dead with no movement. Creating something to paint is a gift that you cannot control. It is flirting and fast. I spend a lot of time thinking of subjects to paint. Going out into my yard is very inspirational. I am a rose grower and when they bloom and are all different colors it is wonderful. I walk thru smelling the different one and something starts in my brain telling me to go paint. I must go then or it will be lost. |
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| Creativity and Inspiration The old world fruit tile was taken from a photograph of fruit that had been arranged. It was challenging to say the least! |
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| Dianne Moore resides in Lorina Texas. She is a teacher of art for porcelain. This is a difficult task and the beauty of the creation shows it. |
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| Whatever I paint at that time if very free and natural looking, mostly from memory. I was interested in Macaws and Toucans because of their vivid coloring. Hopefully I captured their essence. |
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