“When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.”
Robert Adams, photographer
Koi Pond 9, Watercolor, Pencil, Gouache, D. Moorezart, c 2018, all rights reserved
“He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
Memories of Naples, (fantasies on vintage Italian postcards), watercolor, Douglas Moorezart, c 2018
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
Robert Genn
Studio Couch, mixed media on paper, copyright 2018, D. Moorezart, all rights reserved.
In my studio the onlooking “studio couch” continually asks me to step back, take a break and see what’s happened so far. Not to fall down a rabbit hole and get distorted in purpose.
To reflect, to consider, to put on another pair of eyes for a while. Sit a spell.
“Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.”
Alexander Smith, Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863).-
“The wisteria was especially lovely in my garden this year. As I painted just outside my front door I remembered this wonderful line from the Scottish poet Alexander Smith. It states perfectly how I feel as I meditate in this sun dappled spot.”
Douglas
Wisteria Arbor, Oil on Canvas, Douglas Moorezart, c 2018, all rights reserved
Chris Evans, actor, twitter feed on National Pet Day, April 11, 2018
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“Who’s There?” (Breugel and Bella), oil on canvas, Douglas Moore, copyright 2015, all rights reserved
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Breugel (left) and Bella — our rescue family shortly after adoption. Getting to know one another as bonds form. What else could I call this painting but “Who’s There?”
One and one-half wandering Jews
Free to wander wherever they choose
Are traveling together
In the Sangre de Christo
The Blood of Christ Mountains
Of New Mexico
On the last leg of a journey
They started a long time ago
The arc of a love affair
Rainbows in the high desert air
Mountain passes
Slipping into stone
Hearts and bones
Paul Simon, Hearts and Bones
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Rio Grande Gorge Bridge and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, painting, Douglas Moorezart, copyright 2018, all rights reserved
Daily Illuminations – painting, Douglas Moorezart, c 2017, all rights reserved < click image for prints >
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
Autumn Afternoon – D. Moorezart, c 2016, all rights reserved
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out … it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
Poppies Nocturne Study – D. Moorezart, c 2016, all rights reserved
“For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! “
One and one-half wandering Jews
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