Misty Meadow

Sarah Moore’s work explores the idea that nature is not a place we go, but a relationship we inhabit. Her paintings document how, through paying deep attention, a landscape expands from a flat scene into an ecology of meaningful lives which inherently include our own.  In Sarah's words: "After I moved last year from the Appalachian foothills of eastern Tennessee to San Antonio, Texas, I was surprised at how memories of the landscapes I had spent years painting on the east coast would come back to me suddenly. Standing in the arid heat next to a prickly pear cactus, I could close my eyes and step into a foggy morning, surrounded by moss and towering trees. It wasn’t until I moved that I realized how deeply those places and plants had burrowed themselves into my psyche, becoming an intrinsic part of my identity. At first I felt uprooted and pruned, as if I’d left behind not just my home, but parts of myself, too. The paintings in Familiar Haunts are portraits of the places where those p