Morgan Motes grew up in north Florida, and began sharing his art with the world of Florida (mostly Gainesville) at a young age — most high school weekends were spent participating in art shows, art walks, setting up a booth outside of the record store, etc. and selling paintings for whatever locals thought they were worth. He began making music in 2015, releasing under the name We Will Get There Eventually. His music studies the human condition, separation, and loneliness, through raw folk songs fused with elements of emo, indie-rock, and bedroom-pop. In 2018, he began releasing music under the name Big Best Friend, an alt-country side-project. He obtained his associates degree in Studio Art, from Florida School of the Arts in 2017 and in 2021, graduated from The University Of North Florida, with a BFA in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking, and a minor in Creative Writing. He is currently a practicing preparator and art-handler at Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum. He still creates things and questions the sky daily.

Motes was fortunate to receive a full ride through Florida School of the Arts, through the Presidential scholarship. He has also received a 1,000 dollar scholarship, three times, from the Palatka Art League. In June 2019, he was awarded a 4,000 dollar scholarship from Radius Workshop, out of Gainesville, Florida, to go towards a study abroad trip to Croatia. In June 2020, Motes was awarded a grant by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville’s Fill the Void: Artist Relief Funding Campaign. In March 2022, Motes’s painting “Study For Emptiness 1” was selected to be exhibited in MOCA’s (Jacksonville) FIFTY: An Alumni Exhibition.

His artwork has appeared in Cleaver Magazine, The Talon Review, and RadX Magazine. His poetry has appeared in The West Trade Review. His Music has appeared in Folio Weekly, Americana Highways, and online at wewillgetthereeventually.bandcamp.com and bigbestfriend.bandcamp.com, mostly releasing through the record label BLADE RECORDS, of Laredo, Texas. As of 2023, he has released 14 albums.