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 lizabeth
Murray is an artist and award winning author. Well known as a gardener and
photographer in Monet's gardens in Giverny, France, Elizabeth helped restore
the gardens in 1985 and returns annually to photograph them. She lectures
nationally, conducts workshops
at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, as well as at her historic home and gardens
in Monterey, California on Cultivating Sacred Space, Gardening for the
Soul, Awakening the Artist Within and garden photography.
Elizabeth
returns annually to photograph Monet's gardens. Her large photo murals
have shown with Monet's paintings at the New Orleans Museum of Art, M.H.
de Young Museum in San Francisco, Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, San
Diego Museum of Art, Portland Museum, Albright Knox Museum and the Phoenix
Museum.
One woman art shows include:
Istan, Tokyo, Japan, May 2000
Vanier
Gallery,
Scottsdale,
Arizona,
October–December
1999
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
May to August 1999 Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California, Spring
1998
Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Autumn 1998
Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, California 1992
Permanent installations of her photo murals of Monet's gardens create
"Healing Views" at many hospitals including Natividad Hospital
in Salinas, California and St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco, California.
She is very interested in creating healing environments with beauty, art,
and gardens.
Elizabeth Murray is the author of five books on gardening, including the
best selling Monet's Passion: Ideas, Inspiration and Insights from
the Painter's Gardens (200,000 copies sold in three languages to date),
Painterly Photography: Awakening the Artist Within, and her new
book Cultivating Sacred Space: Gardening for the Soul (87,000 first
printing; Book-of-the-Month Club main selection). Her articles and photographs
have appeared in Victoria Magazine, Health & Spirituality, Sunset,
Country Living Gardener, Yoga, The Ritz Carlton Magazine, among others.
She is currently working on a new book about the transformation of people
and place with beauty, as well as books for children.
Elizabeth Murray is also known internationally for her Painterly
Photography. Favorite subjects for her painterly compositions are
gardens, architecture, and still lifes. She begins by photographing with
an old fashioned Polaroid. She renders by hand, creating romantic and
impressionistic images. Then she hand prints her softened images on watercolor
paper and paints them with oils, French metallic and opalescent pastels
made for Degas, and colored pencils. The images begin to glow and flourish
under her nurturing garden-artist hand. Elizabeth enjoys combining her
great loves of painting and photography to create these personal views.
Originals are shown at Photography West in Carmel, CA. Custom orders,
as well as posters
can be ordered from the artist.
Her photographic work is published annually in five calendars
on garden-related themes ranging from Monet's gardens in Giverny, France
to "A Cat in the Garden."
Elizabeth Murray gives slide lectures around the country. Over the past
fifteen years audiences have varied in size and tenor from intimate gardening
groups to large auditoriums, and on the subjects of "Monet's Garden"
and "Gardens as Art and Sacred Space." Elizabeth can be contacted
for lectures
and workshops in your area.
Ms. Murray consults in transforming large public spaces into sanctuaries
that offer tranquillity, reflection, and beauty. Her diverse work experience
includes assisting in the restoration of Claude Monet's gardens in Giverny,
France, being a founding director of the San Francisco Landscape Garden
Show, and redesigning and installing a six-acre outdoor shopping center
featuring separate theme gardens for children, birds and butterflies,
and for those in search of relaxation and solitude.
Elizabeth is a distinguished alumni from Sonoma State University, where
she received her degrees in Fine Art, Environmental Education, and Botany.
She is a native Northern Californian, and resides in Monterey, California
in a 100 year old historically-designated house with large gardens. This
redwood house was the location of the first artist colony on the Monterey
Peninsula for painters, writers, and poets. Elizabeth is renewing the
creative spirit there and welcomes other artists to join her.
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