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By Diana Bird
Rappahannock News
Contributing Writer
Nina Moore’s current exhibition of hand-made papers at the Middle Street Gallery is particularly appealing in part owing to her use of glowing, beautifully combined colors. Several feature aquamarine blues and greens. Others sensitively combine lavenders, gold, yellows and tans. In a few instances white papers display delicate textures of an oriental character.
The papers are made of Manila hemp, i.e. abaca, mulberry bark, i.e. koso, and flax. Moore impregnates them with aqueous-dispersed pigments, especially made for dyeing paper pulp.
Although the 18 framed pictures and the eight unframed ones are essentially abstract images, Moore successfully suggests birds, fish, a whale, flowers, leaves, stones, grass, the moon, mountains, hides and fleece, as well as human forms. Besides single sheets,of a variety of sizes, ranging from eight by five inches to three feet
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