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moy mackay

Moy was born in Edinburgh in 1966, graduating from Glasgow school of Art in 1990 with a BA (hons) degree in Design.  Since then she has live and worked in the Scottish Borders. Moy’s paintings are created by replacing paint as a medium with dyed sheep’s fleece.  She uses finest quality merino tops from merino sheep, combining traditional felting techniques with embroidery.  Layers of merino are built up creating the image, and soap and hot water are then applied.  Through the action of rubbing and rolling, the fibres are joined together to create the unified work.  The piece is usually embellished with hand and machine embroidery to give results which are strikingly rich in colour and texture.

The nature of the medium requires a fine balance between spontaneity and control.  This means that the finished work always carries an element of surprise - an aspect of the process Moy particularly enjoys.  Moy’s passion is for colour and her work asserts this with a luminous vitality.  By using merino in such a painterly way, she has created a very personal and innovative approach to visual expression.

Living rurally in the heart of the beautiful Tweed Valley provides the principal inspiration for her work. Over the past few years Moy has exhibited widely in hugely successful solo exhibitions at prestigious venues throughout the UK.  In December 2006 she exhibited her work for the first time in the US.

In 2010 Moy launched her experimental ‘virtual gallery’ as a free application for iphones and ipad users. It is the first of its kind, where the exhibition showcases a selection of recent Scottish landscape paintings which makes her art accessible to a worldwide audience.

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