The Art Shack

Art and nonsensibilities from Ontario Canada artist Heather Murray check out more work at my web gallery http://www.heather-murray.com

A Personal series of dispatches from Rural Ontario Canada

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Heather Murray
I live in a pastoral country setting;a small hobby farm surrounded by many beloved (and spoiled )creatures.I am a working artist influenced by my rural backdrop and creating diligently and enthusiastically out of my haunted historical studio in Owen Sound Ontario. I am drawn to our collective histories and an imaginary world of those who walked before us. I am a collector of ephemera, memories and rich discards ..Certainly treasures to be refashioned into new art.My background is editorial illustration and I am a visual storyteller. Rescuer of stray memories and strands of past lives. I believe in the transformational and healing qualities of art. It should always be joyful and full of many layers.
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Adored Books

  • room emma donahue
  • Good to a fault
  • Run Ann patchett
  • divisidero Michael Ondaatje
  • the skin of a lion Michael Ondaatje
  • Truth and beauty Ann patchett
  • Away Amy Bloom
  • Babylon Rolling Amanda Boyden
  • goodbye chunky rice craig thompson
  • palestine
  • the gathering
  • Carnet de voyage Craig Thompson
  • Blankets Craig Thompson
  • Obason Joy Kogawa
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran
  • Breath,Eyes ,Memory Edwidge Danticat
  • honeymoon in Purdah
  • A hole in the Universe Mary McGarry Morris
  • sweetness in the Belly Camilla Gibb
  • Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Lion the witch and the wardrobe C.S.Lewis
  • Beloved Toni Morrison
  • Paradise Toni Morrison
  • To kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
  • Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
  • Lullabies for little criminals Heather O'Neill
  • A fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  • The farming of bones Edwidge Danticat

films .. very personal favourites

  • cairo time
  • the writer
  • paper heart
  • london to brighton
  • The messenger
  • julia
  • sumdog millionairre
  • the wrestler
  • Happy go Lucky
  • gran torino
  • Amal
  • The visitor
  • La Vie en Rose
  • the diving bell and the butterfly
  • the kite runner
  • lars and the real girl
  • American gangster
  • across the universe
  • my kid could paint that
  • into the wild
  • lost in translation
  • away from her
  • mad hot ballroom
  • why we fight
  • god grew tired of us
  • Dead man walking
  • 21 grams
  • It's a wonderful Life
  • You can't take it with you
  • harold and maude
  • rent
  • the good girl
  • born into brothels
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Fire
  • Water
  • Sherry baby
  • Shake hands with the devil
  • Frida
  • Little miss Sunshine
  • Babel

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      • foggy morning musings
      • mourning the cows
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Friday, September 29, 2006


Posted by Heather Murray at 5:41 AM
Labels: a painting from my large lovelies series

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