Robin Moore
watercolor paintings

Robin Moore’s paintings are simply the most beautiful contemporary watercolors I’ve ever had the privilege to frame. In terms of color and rendering, they push the medium far beyond what we're accustomed to seeing. Under-celebrated and quiet as she is, it’s perhaps suitable that the subject for Robin's first show at the Gallery — “Tomales Bay: A Shifting Light” held in fall 2008 — was the intimate and deceptively placid beauty of Tomales Bay, a well-loved Northern California locale commonly upstaged by the more dramatic scenery of Point Reyes’s nearby cliffs and ocean beaches. Even those familiar with the area will discover a new perception of its beauties in Robin’s images of the shoreline, trees, and always the glorious interplay of fog and sunlight. As do all great pictures, Robin’s sharpen our vision of these familiar places and intensify their meaning for us, reminding us that at the foundation of a good life is a simple love of place.

: Summit of Coleman Valley Road
2011. Watercolor, 9" x 12". Framed in mitered scoop with carved cushion back edge, 3" wide, in quartersawn white oak (Weathered Oak). $1660.
: Hog and Duck Islands
2011. Watercolor, 4" x 8". Framed in No. 14 CV (Lemos) with scallop stops — 5/8" in walnut (Medieval stain). $725.
: Audubon Cypress Grove from Marshall
2008. Watercolor, 7-3/4” x 15-3/4” Horizontal. Framed in #108.2 – 3” in quartersawn white oak (Medieval Oak stain), 13-1/2” x 21-1/2” outside frame dimensions. $1455.
: Trail's End
2009. Watercolor, 11-3/4" x 15-3/4" horizontal. Framed in #17.3 CV — 3" Village Series flat, in quartersawn white oak (Nut Brown stain), 17-3/4" x 21-3/4" outside frame dimensions. $1850.
: The Rim of the Bowl
2009. Watercolor, 11" x 20-1/2" horizontal. Framed in #230 —3" Century Series slope with pale gold slip, in quartersawn white oak (Weathered Oak stain), 17" x 26" outside frame dimensions. $1865.
: Audubon Cypress Grove Preserve
2008. Watercolor, 8" x 17" Horizontal. Framed in #108.3 – 3-1/2" in quartersawn white oak (Dark Weathered Oak), 14" x 23" outside frame dimensions. $1520.
: Fog Over the Cliffs at Shell Beach

2008. Watercolor, 8-1/2" x 20" Horizontal. Framed in #1.4 CV – 2-3/4" in quartersawn white oak (Medieval), 13-3/4" x 25-1/2" outside frame dimensions. $2060.
: Holding True to Form

2008. Watercolor, 8-3/4" x 15-1/2" Horizontal. Framed in #22.3 – 3" in quartersawn white oak (Dark Weathered Oak stain), 14-1/2" x 21" outside frame dimensions. $1600.
: Deadfall in Spring
2008. Watercolor, 14-1/8" x 18-3/4" Horizontal. Framed in compound scoop profile, 4" wide in quartersawn white oak (Medieval Oak stain), 21-1/2" x 26" outside frame dimensions. $3400.