A Couple of Sales From the Weekend of Crusin the Coast 2011 at South Coast Antiques & Gallery

"The Peeper".

by Michael W. Moses

I just did not get a chance to take many photos of the great classic cars that were here in Ocean Springs last weekend for Crusin the Coast 2011. We had a vast sea of people pass through South Coast Antiques & Gallery. We also had some good sales. I sold one of my signature pieces, "The Peeper". It was one of my most popular works and I am so surprised that it took so long to sell. It was purchased by a young couple from Louisiana . They came into the shop on Friday and looked at my pottery. They stated (as a few other people in the past have) that if they won a jackpot at the casinos in Biloxi They would come back and buy a piece. They came back on Saturday and bought the peeper. They had won at the roulette wheel! The peeper was one of those really whimsical works, that everyone really seemed to like. My business partner, William Murphy made a YouTube video of "The Peeper". I hate to admit it but this is one that I am going to miss.



I also sold one of my watercolors on paper. This was one that I did way back in 1988. It is hard to imagine, but this is now a vintage work of art. This image was titled. "The Iris Were in Bloom". It is a very sensual vision of what a hillside covered my hundreds of iris blooms smells like.  I spent many years doing almost nothing but paintings on either paper or canvas and was fairly pleased. but now I have devoted myself to ceramic art pottery over the last five years and have had great satisfaction doing so. I will not say that I will never do another painting, but I think I will more than likely be doing pottery for as long as I am able. In my opinion there is absolutely nothing more wonderful for me than when I gaze upon a new piece of my pottery in my shop.

"The Iris Were in Bloom" by Michael W. Moses