S16E05 Nancy Christy-Moore

Surprise, Arizona artist, Nancy Christy-Moore, is an internationally collected, award winning painter celebrating the joy of colour, energy and movement in her contemporary abstract original mixed water media paintings.

Education at Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri, the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles led Nancy Christy-Moore into teaching and exhibiting her original paintings for the past thirty-plus years. Classes with highly acclaimed water media artists in southern California during the early ’80’s influenced both her painting and teaching styles which she now passes on in classes and workshops along with newly acquired insights and techniques.

Nancy Christy-Moore unique signature style of “Inner Painting” develops her colourful contemporary art from within on a subconscious level and reflects her love of horses, florals and energetic, free-flowing colours. Nancy’s horse series results from a lifetime love of horses and speaks to the power and energy she connects with when painting them. Her florals and abstracts reveal her underlying romance with colour combinations and subtleties of texture. Nancy Christy-Moore has had over 20 solo exhibits, with two in Japan.

Nancy Christy-Moore accepts creative commissions and welcomes working with clients and designers.

Included in many private and corporate collections worldwide, her original paintings have appeared in museums, the Louisville International Airport Altitude Travelers Club, and as limited edition prints for the Hyatt Regency hotel chain. In 2007 Kennedy Publications selected her for its “Best of America Mixed Media Artists and Artisans Vol. 1”. she was cover artist for the Summer 2011 issue of “Horses in Art” and the Official Artist for Menlo Charity Horse Show 2012. Nancy was made Signature Artist at IEA (Institute of Equine Artists) in 2013 and Master Signature Artist in 2017. Nancy was also invited to exhibit at the 2013 and 2015 Florence Biannale, Florence, Italy.

You can contact Nancy Christy-Moore about her art tips or art techniques directly via her website at nchristy.com