Milton Moon is one of Australia's quintessential landscape artists, though unlike the majority his medium is clay.  Moon's history spans forty years of solo and group exhibitions in Australia, participation in numerous international exhibitions, and overseas study through fellowships.  He has strong affiliations with Japan and is influenced by Zen and Japanese art.

With a list of achievements which include such distinctions as the Commonwealth Fellowship (usually awarded to painters) and membership of the Order of Australia, Moon is a master potter of imminence. Recently exhibited at Stafford Studios (and still available for viewing at the time of writing) is a collective body of vessels that evoke the forms and colours of the unique Australian landscape, incorporating Western Australia's far North and the Flinder's Ranges in South Australia.

Moon's work represents direct reflections of the topographical texture and composition of the natural landscape.  From earth to earth, the artist employs elements from the land to reproduce it's image in art.  Like extractions from the ground itself, Moon's glazes are produced from a variety of oxides mined in the Pilbara, his platters, plates and bowls embody all that is organic with iridescent sun kissed surfaces.  You can find analogies to Aboriginal art, particularly in Moon's appropriation of an aerial perspective as evident in the Kimberley pieces.  An admirer of Rover Thomas, Moon conjures the undulations and formidable terrain of WA.   Then, his enormous floor pots and vases relate to the landscape of the Gammons in South Australia, possessing the quality of depth of the valleys found in the artist's home lands.

Moon successfully transports the physicality of earth into his objects.  These outstanding pieces testify to a life long investigation into the ceramics medium, unveiling the artist's commitment to his artfrom, which deserves much broader public notice.