Marjory Moses Exhibition Opening | The Arts Center

“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