Opening Reception: August 8th, from 5-7PM.

When I close my eyes and picture of where I come from and where I most want to be, I see the outline of the hills and hollows in West Virginia, an old Wayne County family farm, the woods I played in growing up in Kanawha County, the bogs and trails in Canaan Valley, the ponds and brambles and mountain I see near my house, glimpses of light through trees, cloudscapes, and water - the Coal River, Elk River, the Blackwater, the Mon, and the Kanawha, the waves of the Atlantic. 

These images/memories are so integral to who I am as a person, that they’re embedded into every impulse of my artwork.

Although I’ve been making jewelry for more than 15 years now, my visual art has gone on in the background. I used to paint landscapes in a romantic-realism style, but the urge to abstract was always there, and I’ve been moving more and more toward a process that includes intuition+memory+gesture+layers of paint, charcoal, and oil pastel. These paintings are part of that ongoing body of work: Memory’s Landscape.

- Marj Moses, 2025

Displaying from August 8th - September 17th in the Maxwell Gallery.

Opening Reception: October 1st, 4-6PM.

This is a collection of works from North Central WV, Southern Alabama, and the places I frequent. One was literally from my backyard. Many painters paint subjects from all over the world and yet miss the wonders around them. I chose to start with the most familiar surroundings and build from there.

After a long time of painting almost exclusively wildlife, I decided to branch out into other subjects such as botanical and still lifes’. All subjects are scenes that I have directly encountered and have struck me as paintable!

Displaying in the Maxwell Gallery.