Georgie Moore
'Loving Print, Printing Love', Georgie Moore is a Dorset based artist who pulls on her love of nature, the Dorset landscape, and her identity as a black English woman of Jamaican parentage, to inspire her empowering and beautiful lino prints that counter pre-conceived notions of ethnicity and beauty.
From developing a love of art as child, Georgie studied illustration at Swindon School of Art. Here she discovered her passion for lino printing, after loving the transformational process of the grooves that she cut into the block, turning into crisp lines and bold shapes when printed on paper, and the immersive journey of self-discovery in creating her prints.
Georgie creates bold images with strong tonal contrasts. She utilises Chine Collé, single reduction or multi-block relief-printing techniques, printing on heavyweight art papers or delicate Japanese handmade ones.
Every element of Georgie's prints are designed by herself. She works from a completed image in her mind, that she translates onto the block and brings to life in the final print. Georgie uses Ghanaian (Adinkra) symbols within her prints, which speak of life, love, work, friendship and God. Georgie says they link her to ancestors unknown and a heritage she has lost, and that her images 'share a sense of dignity, calm, grace and a quiet power with the viewer'.
