Artist Bio
Richard Murrin is a contemporary realist artist and photographer based in Kent, southeast England. Murrin specialised in figurative and astronomical artwork for more than fifty years, principally interested visually in all that is perceived as magic. Richard Murrin studied at Hammersmith & Camberwell Colleges of Art in the 1960s, have a Fine Art degree, and I am a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
His love of photography was sparked when Murrin borrowed his mother's 1924 Brownie Box Camera No 2, with which he took his first pictures in 1957 in France, Belgium and Holland. Subsequently, Murrin has travelled abroad just about every year since then. Murrin continued to use that camera throughout the 1960s, and he also bought a half-frame camera in Woolworths for seven shillings and sixpence in 1960, which he carried everywhere, until it was smashed by a falling rock whilst fossil hunting at Lyme Regis (Dorset) in 1962.
None of this seemed like a very promising start, but the years that followed have fortunately allowed Murrin to continue his joint passions of travel and photography to capture the images you see here, plus very many more.
Widely travelled, Murrin has had a very extensive view of the world, which has provided him with some remarkable sources of inspiration for his art practice. Also, he has produced photographs & illustrations for newspapers, books & magazines, made digital illustrations for various media, been a guest lecturer in Art and Astronomy, and exhibited paintings and prints internationally. Murrin regularly exhibited at the Blackheath Gallery, Queens Gallery, Great Queen Street, London, & the Window Gallery at Brighton from 1985-1990, commenced online sales in 1998 & participated in group shows from 2014 -2019 at the Strand & Menier Galleries in London. Exhibited internationally since then.