Author: Ingrid Murray

  • Hawaii & Iceland Art Journals

    Hawaii & Iceland Art Journals

    While I post my art journal pages regularly on my Instagram, I realized I haven’t shared a dedicated art post here in months. (Can I blame it on all this change?!) At the end of April, I finished up my Hawaii art journal, named — like those from the past…

  • Growing Pains

    Growing Pains

    From my fall 2023 newsletter: I’ve been reminded again and again these past few months of how messy life is. How infinitely complex humans are. How none of us truly know what we’re doing, but we’re doing it anyway. (Go us.) And how art and friends and pets and glimmers help us through, one…

  • Offene Ateliers Köln

    Offene Ateliers Köln

    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,…

  • Atelier No. 5

    Atelier No. 5

    I am exceedingly excited to share that I joined a shared studio space at Atelier No. 5 in the south of Köln. This opportunity allows me to connect with the artist community, build new relationships, and spread out and get messy (without the threat of curious cats). Other artists currently…

  • Butterfly Words

    Butterfly Words

    Words swirl around my head constantly. I rarely extract them, afraid of the uncertain consequences of others knowing what I really feel. The danger of expressing myself, of it being the wrong thing said the wrong way. I have a deep fear of being misunderstood. Of being punished, cruelly, immediately,…