Jo Moore

about the design collaboration team, Jan and Jo Moore

We share a deep bond with Mother Nature and have been interpreting her landscapes and culture through sculpture and painting for more than 40 years. There exists no separation between the creative process and daily life. For us, they are one. Our connection to Nature and its inhabitants is evident in our large body of works concentrating on Contemporary and Abstract sculptural forms with organic lines predominating. Whether through sculpture or painting, we strive to convey a sense of nurturing and compassion for the plight of both the planet and its inhabitants. It reflects our lifestyle---simple, uncluttered, optimistic.
It serves as an affirmation of the living. We have learned the essence of the here and now and the effortless joys of daily life. We seek to create introspective pieces, often meant to evoke serenity, reverence, meditation--- sculpture that possesses soundness of line, elegance of form. Often our pieces are primal, stoic, visceral. We paint oil on canvas and sculpt in Stone, both for the
unequaled timeless durability of the medium, but also to explore and indulge in their intrinsic beauty and the inherent tension of the elemental forces contained within the stone.

University of New Mexico, BA, 1977

Public Installations include:
Albuquerque Botanic Gardens,
Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque,
National Park Service,
Salinas National Monument,
University of New Mexico,
New Mexico State Printing Facility,
Edwards Air Force Base,
College of Santa Fe.
We have been published in numerous national
and international publications.

Galleries include:
Romancing the Stone, 223 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe
(our own artist-owned gallery)
McLarry Modern, Santa Fe
Shidoni Fine Arts and Sculpture Gardens, Santa Fe
Act One, Taos
Lumina Gallery, Taos
Henningsen Fine Arts, Taos

Henry Moore
Alan Houser

stone sculpture, contemporary, abstract, marble, calcite, texture