Margie Murray
Artist and Writer in Los Angeles, CA
Margie Murray is an award winning painter living in Southern California and inspired by the natural beauty of our landscape. She works mainly in oil and pastel. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and is currently working on a series of still life paintings using a classical approach through observation of the objects as she paints them. Her aim as an artist is to bring more beauty into our world and to help promote the health of our environment. Margie is a member of the American Impressionist Society, American Women Artists, California Art Club, Oil Painters of America, The Pastel Society of the West Coast, and an Exhibiting Member of the California Art League.
Additional Public Endorsements from Collectors:
The quality and diversity of Margie Murray's art - from delicate botanical watercolors to dramatic oil paintings - illustrates her artistic intelligence and intriguing imagination.
David and Chip Selby
Margie Murray sees with a true artist's eye and her breathtaking nature paintings and still lifes translate those visions for the rest of us. She paints with an integrity and fervor and her work captures an ecstasy in the natural world that recalls the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Denise Hamilton
Edgar finalist, author of Eve Diamond Series & The Last Embrace
Editor, Los Angeles Noir
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