Gary Moore lives in Eagle River, Alaska with his wife Stephanie, three dogs, and a rotating population of small, wild mammals and assorted arthropods. He works exclusively in egg tempera at present, but formerly also did watercolor and stained glass painting. In the past he created models, exhibits, and a variety of other things at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, where he was employed as staff artist. His primary interest is in natural history illustration – which, in contradiction to the view of the New York School of parochial art criticism, represents one of the highest forms of art practiced today.
Editor’s comment: Egg tempera was used in Europe for fine painting from the 12th through the 15th centuries, before the rise of oil paints. It is still favored today by select artists, who choose to make their own paints, adding pigment to an emulsion of water and egg yolk. Tempera can be, well, temperamental because it dries quickly and cannot be easily mixed. To blend, layer upon layer is applied, resulting in the translucent, luminescent, opalescent qualities that you see below in Gary Moore’s paintings.
Moore Gillum Fine Art 