“My paintings are impressions of found and imagined colors of the landscape, using nature as my inspiration. I paint mostly along the New England coast or work from my sketches, photographs, or memory. Shapes, which are first blocked in with values of limited color, become more informative as the mood develops and the subtlety of colors are complete. I hope to share the magic sense of place found in my favorite locations while leaving something unsaid for the viewer’s imagination.“
The artist paints in oil, pastel, and watercolor, ranging from representational landscape and seascape to a semi-abstract series of shorebirds and sealife. The sensitive and ethereal quality of these paintings gives her work distinction.
Ann Marguerite Murphy grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts and York Harbor, Maine, graduated from Lasell College, and has studied with nationally recognized artists and prominent New England artists. Her love of the ocean began as a young child when her summers were spent at her grandparents’ cottage in Scarborough, Maine. She and her husband reside on the southern coast of Massachusetts.