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? ?If it doesn?t toll a story, I trash it,? she >f says.
I- Take, lor example, her painting Until Today I Thought I Was Folks. s ?Not long after my husband?s death, I it was living on Enid Lake, and I had to have n his old birddog put to sleep because he it wouldn?t eat, he was so sad,? Moseley T . explains.
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?Her sense of humor is definitely there, in the stories she tells,? says Ann Warson, who works with Moseley one day a week, helping her mail out prints and information. ?Her paintings all have a great story behind them.?
The creative process
; Just as Moseley has a favorite painting, she also has a favorite part of the creative process.
J ?Creating as I go along is the best part,? says Moseley. ?I tuck things away in my memory, so that l ean use them later.?
, J And, after spending a while in the shell of her mind, those grains of memories form pearls.
r Those pearls?her paintings ? a!re all over town.
| She gives an original print to all new businesses in the Bay St. Louis "area; additionally, her work is featured in a mural on Main Street.
* Moseley says she refused to get on scaffolding, so a local school-class painted the actual mural from one of her paintings.
?It?s kind of strange to see my painting there in town,? she admits.
There will soon be a place in town that holds nothing but her paintings.
Her son, Tim, a clinical psychologist who lives in Pass Christian, plans to open a museum in her honor. To that end, he has recently
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bought back six of her original paintings.
Moseley says she is honored that her son is doing this; that she is continually amazed by life?s gifts.
?My life has been very unusual,? Alice says. ?I?m grateful to have had two successful careers.?
Her charm, not surprisingly, has garnered her several admirers.
?I think the most important thing I like about her work is how it comes from her soul; her inner self,? says John ?Chappy? Chap-
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man, who has a wall in his house dedicated to nine of Moseley?s original paintings.
And to think she didn?t get started until later in life.
?I really admire the way she?s out there just plugging away in every kind of way at 90 years old,? says Gowdy.
Moseley herself doesn?t seem to find it remarkable at all.
?Everyone needs some reason to get up in the morning,? she she says. ?I do believe in a never-never land?