John H Moore works from his studio at home in rural
Devon, but don’t expect rural scenes or pretty
landscapes. John’s contemporary work is about
perception and he uses geometry, visual paradox and
illusions to show that what we see is mostly inside
our minds.
John is brainy and barmy (an eccentricity caused
by two degrees and a doctorate), loves his family
and has always followed the path of self-employment,
including running a research company to exploit his
own patents and upgrading a holiday park from unlisted
to five-stars. He became a full-time artist in 2004.
John is fascinated by how simple rules can generate
very complex patterns. The most interesting patterns
are in some way figurative - that is, they contain
information that we see as ‘things’ (or
parts of things). This illusion is why art "works",
and why we don’t see the world as it really
is, as an interlocking tessellation of impossible
objects.....
