Shop Chuck’s Collection of Whimsical Worlds of: Moondominiums, Moon Stones, Dry Creek & more
Welcome to a world where the love of fantasy and architecture quietly meet beneath the glow of the moon.
These “Moondominiums, Moonstones, and Dry Creek” places are inspired by my own imagined sanctuaries. Whimsical dwellings that exist somewhere between dream and wake inspired by memory and alchemy. Each painting begins as a place similar to the ones we return to in those drifting moments between waking and wonder, where cobblestone walls curve gently, doors are worn smooth by time, and warm lights glow from weathered windows with stories waiting to be told.
Rendered in ink and watercolor and other materials these small architectural worlds are inspired by moons, stars, stones, cottages, forests, rivers, and other timeless forms – structures that feel both familiar and otherworldly. A world where vines climb freely, windows peer outward like watchful eyes, and crescent moons become comfortable homes rather than distant heavens. They are quiet places, steady, grounded, and calm, built slowly, one line and wash at a time.
For me, painting these imagined sanctuaries is a way of finding calmness and healing. It is a practice of mindfulness to sort the noise of this world into shape, light, and structure that language cannot explain. For the viewer, I hope each piece offers a similar pause: a small place to rest the mind, wander gently, and remember the quite wonderful worlds we all carry within us.
All artworks are created by hand in our studio cottage (or sometimes on the front porch under the giant sycamore) in Joplin, Missouri, and are available as original ink and watercolor paintings or archival-quality fine art prints. Each piece is signed and crafted with care, carrying its own small world within.
Thank you for stepping into my Moondominiums,
Chuck Catlett
Green Hearts Studio
Of Wooden Shelves and Crystal Jars
There are places within the heart that even the wisest sages cannot explain…vast, eternal worlds hidden in the folds of the spirit, flickering just beyond waking thought. I’ve brushed against them in those drifting seconds between dreams and dawn, and in the ancient whispers that rise with a moonlit fire. Humanity has spent centuries trying to paint, sculpt, and write these inner landscapes into existence. Jung called them archetypes, echoes of a “collective consciousness,” patterns inherited through memory and myth.
This “Moondominium” as I call them is my own imagined sanctuaries. A timeless abode tucked away in that secret realm.
A crescent cottage moon cladded by creek worn cobblestones, a weathered redwood door, crumbling plaster and warm pale lights glowing softly. Vines curl lovingly around its frame, climbing toward the two round windows set deep in aged oak wood. It’s the sort of dwelling you might stumble upon only in dreams, where the air hums with quiet magic and the familiar meets the fantastic.
Inside, if one were to dare and cross the threshold, wooden shelves would line the curved walls, and each shelf would hold delicate crystal jars. Some jars shimmer with beautiful memories, some sealed and pushed back in the darks as if never to be open. Others glow with wonders not yet discovered. And among them sit empty jars, untouched and waiting to be filled.
These empty vessels are where the artisan’s magic begins.
For artists are the alchemists of our age, blending the treasures of the past with the unopened mysteries of tomorrow. They create something more precious than gold: reflections of the heart, shaped by imagination and illuminated by wonder.
This piece, “Of Wooden Shelves and Crystal Jars” is one such reflection. A doorway into the hidden worlds we all carry, inviting you to step inside, wander, and remember the places you thought only existed in dreams.
Original: $125.00
6.5 in. x 6.5 in. matted to fit 11 in x 11 in frame
Original ink and dry watercolor by Artist Chuck Catlett, Joplin Missouri
Prints available Starting at $25.00
The Copper Moon
Once, long ago, they had worn copper and iron around their hearts, metal meant to protect them from a colder, louder world. Over time, those shields grew heavy, scarred by weather and worry. One day they found each other and in time they finally piece by piece set them down, yet, they did not discard the metal. Instead, they shaped it together into a crescent moon and carried it to a quiet world where the ground knew how to be still.
There, they set the moon upon a careful stack of rounded stones, each one chosen for balance rather than strength. The copper skin softened with age, turning green with time’s gentle hand, like the hull of an old ship that had survived every crossing. Rivets and seams remained, not hidden, but honored.
Three round porthole windows glowed warmly from within. That light was their souls, shared dinners, shared silences, laughter that needed no witnesses. Beside the moon stood a single slow growing tree, its autumn leaves glowing gold and amber in the fading sun, as if the season itself wished to linger.
They lived simply inside their crescent home, tending the light and one another’s hearts. They asked little of their world and offered even less resistance the natural current of life. Love, they had learned, did not need to be loud to last forever.
At sunset, when the leaves burn softly and the lights grow warm, the Copper Moon rests peacefully upon its stones an enduring refuge fashioned by two hearts that finally found peace in each other, and chose to stay.
Original: $125.00
5 in. x 7 in. matted to fit 8 in. x 12 in. frame.
Original ink and dry watercolor by Artist Chuck Catlett, Joplin Missouri
Prints available Starting at $25.00
Symbiotic Souls
They built the crescent moon together, though each came to it differently.
One brought the stones, cool, steady, shaped by time and endurance. Vintage golden cobblestones formed the moon’s curved body, strong and quiet, holding their place without complaint. The other brought the living things, wisteria, that reached, climbed, and searched for something to hold on to.
On a warm summer night it was the vines that found the stones. Slowly, gently, the wisteria wrapped herself around the cold surfaces, threading love into every seam. Where there had once been only weight and stillness, warmth began to appear. The stones did not resist. They allowed themselves to be held. Over time, they seemed to glow, golden, not from the sun, but from the life that embraced them.
Two wooden porthole windows opened softly to the world, revealing their light, steady and shared. Inside lived a couple who understood this balance well. One offered shelter, the other offered growth, both found healing and together they became a home. Season after season, the wisteria bloomed, nourished by stone strength, which were softened and brightened by living vines. What was once cold and enduring became warm and luminous, not changed, but fulfilled.
At dusk, when the windows glow and the vines sway gently against stone, the Wisteria Moon stands as a quiet truth: that love does not always arrive with a grand entrance. Sometimes it arrives as patience, wrapping itself around what is steady until even the coldest heart learns how to shine.
Original: $175.00
5 in. x 7 in. double matted in a beautiful 12 x 16 frame (not shown)
Original ink and dry watercolor by Artist Chuck Catlett, Joplin Missouri
Prints available Starting at $25.00