Wendy Moore

Wendy Moore is an experienced artist, a long term student of Lilly Lee Art Gallery, exhibiting regularly at Art West Gallery, Coonan St, Indooroopilly. She has been commissioned to produce artworks and has also sold her works in the Art West Gallery. Though Wendy studied art at high school she only rediscovered her creative side around 2014 when she signed up, initially for a drawing class, at Lilly Lee Art Gallery then located at Sherwood. She went on to discover pastels and acrylic mediums, also dabbling in watercolour, oils and mixed media. She has a passion for lifelong learning and loves trying out new ways of expressing herself.

Her work background is a journey in itself, commencing her career in computing, as it was known then, with qualifications in Business, she has workedin many fields including IT, administration, sales and marketing and finally volunteer coordination and management in hospital environments. Wendy has over 12 years’ experience in managing volunteer programs and coordinating volunteers. She believes that Volunteer Management has always been her destiny and speaks with enthusiasm about seeing people grow in confidence, make new social connections and enjoy a sense of satisfaction through volunteering. Wendy retired in 2020 only to commence work in December 2024 in the women’s fashion industry at ‘Taking Shape’, a job she loves as it is an extension of her passions to help people in their life journeys to feel good about themselves though the creative process of colour, design, style and fit.

Wendy recently entered The BVAC art competition themed “Open to Interpretation”. Her entry was a modern twist on Vincent Van Gogh’s “Café Terrace at Night (Terrasse de Café la Nuit)” 1888. She wanted to combine Van Gogh’s famous painting with the imagery of the iconic 1896 Le Chat Noir poster created by Swiss-born French Art Nouveau artist Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen.

She hopes to enter the Brisbane Portrait Prize, this time with a self portrait, something that she has never attempted, called “Resilience”. It will be a modern representation of the health challenges she has experienced over a five year period, including breast cancer, cornea transplants and open heart surgery. Her catch phrase is “If it doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger”.

Wendy is married to husband, Iain (Ian) and has three adult children, Kim with two children of her own, Hailie and Marley, who all live with Iain and Wendy, James also living in Brisbane, and Rachel, married recently to Samuel and living in Melbourne.

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