![Colorful mixed media piece on paper.](https://i1.wp.com/www.ingridmurray.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_20230906_214058-820x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Detail of mixed media on paper, with black, lime green, blue, and neon pink as the primary colors.](https://i2.wp.com/www.ingridmurray.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_20230906_214508-767x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Blank pages within a bound handmade book.](https://i1.wp.com/www.ingridmurray.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_20230906_214410-769x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Diptych mixed media on paper, with shades of green, white, and dark blue as the primary colors..](https://i1.wp.com/www.ingridmurray.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_20230906_214359-1024x681.jpg?ssl=1)
![Detail of clorful mixed media piece on paper.](https://i0.wp.com/www.ingridmurray.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_20230906_214501-767x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Diptych mixed media on paper, with black, lime green, blue, and neon pink as the primary colors.](https://i0.wp.com/www.ingridmurray.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_20230906_214103-1024x682.jpg?ssl=1)
![Diptych mixed media on paper, with shades of yellow and peach, white, and neon orange as the primary colors.](https://i2.wp.com/www.ingridmurray.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_20230906_214331-1024x681.jpg?ssl=1)
![Front cover of handbound book. It features gnome-like creatures painting a large blue question mark.](https://i1.wp.com/www.ingridmurray.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_20230906_214420-767x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
Last weekend — only about week after I joined the studio collective — Atelier No 5 participated in Offene Ateliers Köln (Open Studios Cologne). The once-a-year event invites art studios throughout the city to open their doors and artists to share their work.
We held a reception on September 8, and despite having little to show given my move and limited time in the studio before the event, I was thrilled to sell two pieces (above, bottom left). While my personal art journals aren’t for sale, I was also proud to showcase several years’ worth and speak about the process of creating them (in German!).
![A white wall with 10 colorful abstract art pieces in varying sizes. On a table below sit four completed art journals and two blank art journals.](https://i0.wp.com/www.ingridmurray.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_20230908_193407.jpg?resize=681%2C1024&ssl=1)