Peggy Murray - born 1947

Peggy Murray

Cat with Iris, 2007
copyright Peggy Murray

We first met Ms. Peggy Jane Murray in the early days of our company somehow via a display of one of her paintings on the internet. We admired Peggy's serigraphs of dogs in kimonos and her paintings of samurai cats. As friends of Japanese art prints we were immediately attracted by these witty and technically well made images. Then we lost contact with each other. Peggy Jane Murray was too busy at that time as an art teacher to make more new print designs. Now she is back - retired from art teaching and full of energy to create more new works of cats and dogs with a Japanese touch. Happy printmaking Peggy!

Education and Art Training

Peggy Jane Murray was born in Berkeley, California, in 1947. In 1980 she made her Master of Arts Degree in Printmaking at California State University, Chico, CA, USA, and in 1976 her Bachelor of Arts Degree at Humboldt State University.

Then followed several years of art teaching:

Printmaking Instructor, part-time, CSU, Chico, 1983-85.
Elementary Teacher-Fifth Grade, Palmdale, CA, 1987-89.
Art Teacher, Antelope Valley Union High School District, Lancaster, CA, 1989-2003 (retired).

In 2003 Peggy Jane Murray retired from art teaching and after a break of three years she has decided to come back to printmaking with her latest serigraph Cat with Iris created in a format that is perfect in size and price to be offered in artelino"s online art auctions.

Exhibitions

Peggy Murray

The Love Letter, 1983
copyright Peggy Murray

2006 - Solo exhibition at Hart Gallery, Ferndale Repertory Theater, USA.
Solo exhibition at Humboldt's Finest, Eureka, CA, USA.
Solo exhibition "Peggy Jane Murray-Serigraphs, Terri Lee Clarke-Ceramics", Highland Art Center, Weaverville, CA, USA.
Solo exhibition - "Pet Tricks", Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA, USA.
Featured artist exhibition "It's Raining Cats & Dogs", Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, Lancaster, CA, USA.
Solo exhibition "Cat Samurai: Recent Paintings", James Snidle Fine Arts, Chico, CA, USA.
1997 - "International Print Triennial '97", Krakow, Poland
Group Show "All Creatures Great and Small", John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA.
Solo exhibition "Reigning Cats and Dogs", Maturango Museum, Ridgecrest, CA, USA.
Solo exhibition "Peggy Jane Garbutt", Foster Goldstrom Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Affiliations

Los Angeles Printmaking Society
California Society of Printmakers

Collections

Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, USA.
Edinboro State College, Pennsylvania, USA.
Emanuel Hospital, Portland, Oregon, USA.
The Art Bank, Humboldt Cultural Center, Eureka, CA, USA.
Shields Library, University of California, Davis, USA.
Janet Turner Print Gallery & the Art Department, CSU, Chico, USA.
UNICEF Restoration Project, Krakow, Poland.
Numerous Private Collections.

Gallery Affiliations

James Snidle Fine Arts, Chico, CA, USA.
James Snidle's All About Me, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Humboldt Artworks, Arcata, CA, USA.

Artist Statement

The following text of this paragraph was written by the artist who holds all copyrights.

Peggy Murray

The Tea Ceremony, 1989
copyright Peggy Murray

"A member of the California Society of Printmakers and the Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Peggy Jane Murray uses an art form known as serigraphy to create her work. It is a hand print process in which the artist pushes ink through a stencil onto paper. The stencil is mounted on a fabric mesh, which is then mounted on a wooden frame. Each successive color in a print requires its own stencil and is printed separately. The process demands weeks or even months from beginning to end."

"Murray states that her work is influenced by traditional Japanese woodblock prints. Some of the qualities of Ukiyo-e prints that influence her work are some of the same qualities that affected the imagery of the Impressionist artists: cropping of images (like a photograph) and the choice of everyday common subject matter, i.e. a woman serving tea or brushing her hair or sealing a letter."

"The artist considers herself very fortunate in that she lives with most of her subjects. Her most inspirational subject was her dog of 14 years, Bazooka. Murray began painting dog monument pieces in homage to Bazooka after the dog saved her from an intruder in the seventies when she was an art student at Humboldt State University in Northern California. Murray continued to use the dog as a model while working on her master's degree in fine art printmaking at Chico State University, but there, the artist realized that the imagery evolved to the point that the artist began to use the dog to characterize herself, her life and her experiences - an attribute known as anthropomorphism. Today, Murray uses dogs and cats to represent her loved ones and friends as well as herself. The artist describes her work as narrative, personal and humorous. She currently lives in the city of Fortuna on the North Coast of California with her husband, Mike, their four cats and dog model, Emma."

Cat with Iris

Peggy Murray

Cat with Iris - detail, 2007
copyright Peggy Murray

Peggy Jane Murray gave us the following comment on her print "Cat with Iris":

"After a hiatus of several years, this image represents my return to printmaking. Typical of my work, an animal poses as human in a red kimono. She holds a spring flower in her hand. The model is Murphy, a black and white longhair cat, who resides in a shop on Second Street in Old Town Eureka in Northern California."

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