Boats, seascapes, people and the homes and buildings that have special meaning for them — these are the foundations of Murray’s work as an artist.  His travels to Guernsey, Channel Islands, the home of his family and where he spent many formative years, and his travels throughout Canada, where he now lives and finds inspiration, provide the images and impressions that are the subjects of his latest works.

He has a fascination with line, its inward and outward curves, how it separates human from natural space, how it can transmute the physical and visual history of a building or landscape into their present day forms.

His passion for history and the dimensions of line have inspired him to create a series of pen and ink drawings based on the history of Guernsey. In addition to his Guernsey series, he is often commissioned by clients to create pen and ink drawings of their homes, their families or a favorite car or boat. In each drawing, his challenge is to depict the unique personalities of the subjects.

For his paintings, Murray favors acrylic on stretched canvas. Acrylic allows him to lay washes of color to reflect depth and atmosphere and it allows him to represent the vagaries of light, its conflict with shadow, and how colors are transformed by both.

Murray now lives and works in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Having studied with such established artists as Nan Hogg, Kathleen Schmalz, and Janette Hayhoe, he works out of a studio in Guelph as well as on location.