Mr Moshett will be remembered for his evocative and deft paintings of Guyanese life, in particular of Georgetown and its environs, with titles such as 'Village Evening', 'Approach to East Bank Highway', 'Holiday on the Beach', and 'Breezy Day', recording gentler, more placid times and places in Guyana. His subjects were wide-ranging, revealing his careful observation and appreciation of life around him, nothing of which was too modest or simple to qualify as a source of his inspiration.

Moshett, like his childhood friend and near-contemporary E.R. Burrowes, played a part in the first association of Guyanese artists in the 20th century -- the British Guiana Arts and Crafts Society. He was later a committee member, then Secretary, of the Guianese Art Group, founded in 1944, and Secretary of the short-lived Guyana Art Association in 1966. He notably, however, never held a one-man exhibition or group show, though he participated and won prizes in many annual art exhibitions.

He had a full-time career instead as a graphic artist, working from 1941 to 1962 at the newly established British Guiana Lithographic Company, the fore-runner of the present-day Guyana National Printers Limited, where colour printing and lithography were for the first time introduced to British Guiana and the West Indies. He played a key role in setting standards in the printing industry in Guyana, becoming Co-Director and Chief Artist of the Lithographic's Art Department, responsible not only for the layout and design of the many monthly and annual magazines produced in the period before the development of mass radio and television, but also for training the printery's apprentices through rigorous drawing and colour exercises, advising the 'youngsters' that “in the printing and advertising field, a mango (would) never be accepted for an orange, nor a pumpkin for a papaw”.

He collaborated with his fellow Co-Director at Lithographic, Reginald Phang, on two significant projects, the first, their 1946 winning entry in the competition to illustrate A. J. Seymour's 'Legend of Kaieteur', for which Moshett produced the script and decorative detail accompanying Phang's illustrations; this work is still today in the collection of the National Library.

The second was the series of 24 paintings illustrating 'Industries of Guiana', commissioned by Peter D'Aguiar in 1948 to mark the refurbishment of the Banks DIH Limited Stabroek premises; the paintings, signed by both Moshett and Phang, are still in their original location today at the Banks DIH No. 1 Hotel Bar, at Stabroek. Both show the attention to detail, scope of imagination and generosity of spirit, which were the hallmark of Hubert Moshett's work.

His meticulousness and generosity typically led him to record details of his life and those of his artist colleagues, making personal notes and collecting cards, programmes, catalogues and cuttings, the latter often reproduced in triplicate. These records were donated by the artist to the Department of Culture in the late 1980's and now form a valuable archive at the National Gallery. Additionally 12 works by Mr Moshett are in the National Collection of Art.

Castellani House paid tribute to Mr Moshett in a 1996 exhibition, co-sponsored by Banks DIH Limited, to mark his 95th birthday. In 2001, an exhibition marking his 100th birthday was also presented. To the end of his life Mr Moshett retained an alert mind, courtesy of manner and a droll wit, which could quickly reveal itself in conversation. His life and work, generosity of spirit, meticulousness and selfless professionalism should forever serve as an examplar to younger generations of Guyanese artists.

Mr Moshett leaves to mourn his wife Winifred, two sons and grandchildren.