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SA Murray SURREAL ART

ARTISTS are supposed to be WEIRD

About Me

See More SURREAL ART AT http://www.samurray.comBiographyPrior to the emergence of my current style in 1990 which I describe as "SURREAL-EXPRESSIVE", I had a very realistic style and would draw animals and people.I started experimenting with universal symbols and using art to express emotions in the summer of 1990. I realized that I could use my art to heal myself in a way that "talk therapy" could not. I became immersed in the creative process as memories surfaced and conflicts emerged in my art. I noticed that I was in fact an "ARTIST'", but was more involved in the healing process that was taking place. As a result of my personal journey, I now strongly believe in the HEALING POWER of ART. I also believe that I was meant to be an artist and that I need to create in order to be happy. I have been prolific since 1990, and find that since I have worked through a lot of my personal pain, I am now able to create new worlds and have fun with my art.My mission now is to share my art with others in hope that it will inspire them to "get their ART out".One day I hope to start a free "after school" ART SCHOOL for youth where they can be mentored by inpiring creative artists. I also like working with frustrated artists and teens individually and am offering private classes in the Central Coast of CALI area. I currently lead weekly Expressive ART Groups with Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center and Mariposa Wellness Center. -SylviAnn Murray-See More SURREAL ART AT http://www.samurray.com SylviAnn Murray Says : I am a "self-taught" driven obsessed ARTIST with a different perspective about most things. A funny thing about me is that many people think I am drunk or on drugs when I am NOT... especially after seeing my SURREAL ART. See More SURREAL ART AT http://www.samurray.com
 Go to: SylviART.com to ORDER museum quality GICLEE PRINTS! Go to the PRINTS page and use the DONATE button to pay securely using your Credit Card or PayPal. Send me the title and size or the GICLEE PRINT you want and I will send you the price to pay... Allow 3 weeks. These large excellent quality Prints can be ordered on watercolor paper or canvas (with painted sides) with the canvas prints requiring a few more dollars. (they do not need to be framed!)..

My Interests

Saving the world thru ART! Making the world more peaceful by encouraging CREATIVITY and that inward search so few of us ever do. UPSIDEdown, SA Murray © 2000Human RIGHTS... Food,Shelter, and Safety for ALL should be a right not a priveledge!HERE are some GREAT QUOTES... feel free to pass them on...“Once you have tasted flight; you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”~ Leonardo da Vinci ~"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come ALIVE and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come ALIVE."~ Howard Thurman ~"The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."~ James Baldwin ~"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple - my philosophy is kindness."~ Dalai Lama ~"ride the rim and cast no shadow."~ tony scibella ~AND I WILL ADD ONE OF MY OWN..."The DIAGNOSIS should have been ARTIST!"- SylviAnn Murray a.k.a. SylviART -

I'd like to meet:

MUSICIANS who need Trippy SURREAL CD Art... Folks who are collecting art, other artists, intellegent passionate people. Stuck or wannabe artists that I can inspire - to get their art out! Ask me about healing and fun Expressive ART GROUPS or innovative and intense Surreal ART CLASSES (especially for teens, but all ages OK) on the Central Coast of CALI... My locations or yours! No fees for small private classes but small DONATIONS are suggested! the SCREAM, SA Murray © 1992 SKYBOUND, SA Murray © 1991 LADY LIBERTY, SA Murray © 1993I need to meet people who can help me get my ART out - to share it with the world... I would LOVE to meet presidential candidate JOHN EDWARDS whose vision I share...and BONO who is already making such a great difference in our world by working towards stopping poverty...* and I would love to sit and talk with VINCENT Van Gogh my favorite artist of all times if only I could! (Here is my poem for Van Gogh)..........for VINCENT.....Only yesterday I passed you on your way to Rest.....I have come ALIVE..... my SOUL exploded upon canvasses for all to see.....and you have finally died and passed it safely for me to carry on.....yes I was there I know INSANE.....but I have come back to set you FREE..... You can go HOME now to the Fields and the SKY.....We are ONE..... we passed in this LIFE..... I will continue your SPIRIT in this earthly body.....Together one daythe daisies will dance upon graves of ARTISTS who can never die.....SylviAnn Murray © 1997

Music:

BLACK-EYED PEAS - MOODY BLUES - TORI AMOS - MEATLOAF - PRINCE - EMINEM - REM - AVRIL - KYLIE - so many more... MANKIND SCREAMING, SA Murray © 1996 HOPE EMERGES in the 9/11 RUBBLE, SA Murray © 2001

Movies:

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Television:

View T-Shirts Click Here HOPE for PEACE in 2004, SA Murray © 2002charlie sheen on 911

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Books:

I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN... 9-11 ATTACK, SA Murray © 2001 ----- I started drawing this 3 days after the attack on the World Trade Centers on 9-11-2001 and we were all immersed in some kind of black hole awaiting the end of the world.... Oh MY GOD it was the most desperate horrifying time I have known for America as a nation and I felt called to capture the horror for all to see/remember... It was important to me that folks would see there were innocent people in those buildings that gave up their lives for some larger horror... It was beyond comprehension. The only salvation or hope I could find in this very real but very SURREAL scene was the white birds coming to bring the innocent souls back over the rainbow to a better place.... call it "Heaven" or call it what you will. I am a spiritual person and I do believe the soul lives on after our bodies are gone! GRASPING ETERNITY, SA Murray © 1992 (3 x 4)' oil on canvas

Heroes:

Van Gogh, Dali, Einstein, Michael Parkes (living artist)

DONATE $5 to the JOHN EDWARDS 08 campaign when you order this T-shirt at: www.cafepress.com/johnEDWARDSin08 Whoops... I do have that cute side! This doggie character would be great on T-shirts for the EDWARDS in 2008 campaign and I did sell some for the KERRY-EDWARDS in 2004 campaign! (See article at www.sylviart.com/bio) To see more of the cute and beautiful art go to my other SylviART myspace by clicking on my 1st "top friend"! Also see more about available T-shirts (4 you and your doggie), Bumper Stickers and buttons, ect. on my blogs...

My Blog

SKYBOUND - nude cat bird woman

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Posted by SA Murray SURREAL ART on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:14:00 PST

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Kaleidoscope Number 50 Winter/Spring 2005 Biannual Nik Hospodor's "sophisticated flourenscentism" visual work, featured in "Landscape," captures attention on Kaleidoscope's front cover with a magical,...
Posted by SA Murray SURREAL ART on Sun, 27 May 2007 12:39:00 PST

Look into BLUE EYES.... (first of my SURREAL works)

This is a color negative of the very first of my SURREAL ART works created in 1990 and titled "Look into BLUE EYES". It's the universe inside an eye... and my first artwork after doing Pet Portraits ...
Posted by SA Murray SURREAL ART on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:33:00 PST

She is NUDE...(poetry) and FREEBIRD (surreal-erotic art)

..> She is NUDEreaching thru the evergreensmingling withe the FOREST touching sunraysdrifting    part of herereaching out   for the SUN She came UNDONEin the oceanbut is ON...
Posted by SA Murray SURREAL ART on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:01:00 PST

COSMIC CATS (3 x 4 ft. oil painting)

  ..>  ..> ..> There is a SILENCEthat precedes memaking room for something PROFOUNDThere is a KNOWLEDGEfound in silence that sets me FREEto follow QUIETto take it overto annou...
Posted by SA Murray SURREAL ART on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:43:00 PST

ULTIMATE woman.... the Cat-Bird-Woman called SKYBOUND!

SKYBOUND,  SA Murray © 1991 She is bound to the SKY and I call that FREEDOM.. This would make a great CD cover and it has not been claimed yet.  You would need my written permission to use ...
Posted by SA Murray SURREAL ART on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:16:00 PST

GRAFFITI (poem) and ART of 9.11 aftermath

..> ..> HOPE EMERGES:  Cat found alive in 9/11 rubble!   I had been I became intensely involved with the 9/11 Attacks thru my artwork.  I was actually looking for some kind of ...
Posted by SA Murray SURREAL ART on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:14:00 PST

RAINBOW VISION - sexy and unexpected (Erotic ART)

RAINBOW VISIONS,  SA Murray © 1999 Yes.... look again guys.... its a dolphin diving between two lovely breasts which happen to be in the middle of the ocean....  The original mixed media ar...
Posted by SA Murray SURREAL ART on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:29:00 PST

SHATTERED IN LA (poetry) + PURPLE PAIN (artworks)

..> RAINBOW TIGER (18 x 24)"  Original donated to UCLA   ..> ..> NUDES CLIMBING (14 x 17)" pencil on paper  ..>   ..> too much INSIDE too much to sa...
Posted by SA Murray SURREAL ART on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:45:00 PST

HUNGRY EYES (poem) + OUT THE EYEHOLES (art)

..> HUNGRY EYESI have lost the "right" to laughnaked in the sunto feel free and prettywalking down the streeteven naked aloneI feel they are watching meHUNGRY EYES AnimalsI am the preythey see only...
Posted by SA Murray SURREAL ART on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:16:00 PST