Claudia Quintero Moseley is a South Texas based artist specializing in painting and illustration. Her subject matter encompasses dream states, time, and the liminal qualities of life. Drawing heavily on symbolism and the surreal, her work gives voice to the immaterial qualities of experience. After teaching art in higher education for several years, she now works as Education Coordinator in a regional archeology and history museum. The artist resides with her husband, various animals, and many, many plants.

My work leans heavily on the use of symbols, not as purely collective or universal truths, but as the means to a personal, honest language. By combining dream imagery with visual metaphor, I am attempting to inform my life, thoughts, emotions, etc. These signs are recognizable by me, but not inaccessible to the viewer, as language in any form has varying degrees of fluid meaning. The conscious and subconscious play equal roles in my creative process-therefore things are rarely clear from the beginning, and I often begin a work not having the whole picture. The rest comes, eventually, and faithfully, when I need it. What I’m after is essence, which may be truth, or at least a pathway towards it.