Biography

Self-portrait coloured pencil on tinted paper
Self-portrait coloured pencil on tinted paper © 2023 Colin Murray

II was born in 1956 and I began painting in oils when I was twelve years old. When I was seventeen I attended a two-year Foundation Course and I also have a Ba Honours degree in Fine Art and a City and Guilds Teaching Certificate. I have taught in schools and I've also given private tuition. I teach basic drawing skills, especially from life, and painting and drawing technique as these are things that can be taught.

For more information please visit the 'About Me' blog.

Curriculum Vitae

1973 - 75 - Colchester School of Art Foundation Course.

1975 - 76 - Leicester Polytechnic, first year of a degree course completed.

1985 - Various murals with a rogues gallery featuring portraits of famous gangsters at the La Prison nightclub, London N16.

1987 - October - Bloomsbury Theatre - London WC1.

1993 - 94 - Middlesex University, Ba Honours degree in Fine Art completed.

1995 - April - Studio Sienko - London SE1.

2000 - April - Sutton House - London E9.

2003 - May - First Edition - London E14. 

2004 - December - Eye Opener - Group Show - various locations - London N16.

2000 - 2005 - Mural design and numerous commissions undertaken for Clegg Gifford insurance brokers based in Whitechapel, London E1.

2005 - June - A Lotus in Bloom - Group Show - Oxford House London E2.

2006 - July - Global Families - Group Show - Oxford House London E2.

2006 - February - First Edition - London E14.

2006 - July - August - Stoke Newington Festival - various locations - London N16.

2006 - November - Group show in the Rochester Castle, London N16.

2007 - Islington Contemporary Art and Design Fair - London N1.

2012 - November - First Edition - London E14.

2013 - January - Abney Park Visitors Centre - London N16.

2014 - June - Curwen Gallery - short listed for the Curwen Art Prize - London W1.

2014 - October - Taplow Court Culture Centre - Maidenhead.