KAY MURRAY–WEBER
Still Life - details of surroundings
Still Life - details of surroundings
Resided in Toronto, Ontario
Kay's early life on an ancestral farm laid the foundation for her work in landscape and still life. She remembers sitting on a calf pen in hand drawing the funnels and odd shapes arrayed on the shelves of the family barn. A hanging lantern cast a Rembrandt light while the munching sounds of horses and the pinging sounds of milking cows played in the background.
This early interest in art instigated her move to Toronto to attend The Ontario College of Art where she began her studies under two distinguished teachers: printmaker, Fred Hagan and painter, Jock MacDonald. She received an IBM Scholarship and graduated with honours. Kay has continued to collect awards and honours ever since. She has had major exhibitions in Winnipeg, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Burnaby, and Toronto. In 1985, the Miriam Perlman Gallery in Chicago exhibited Kay’s work along side work by fellow Canadians Ann Meredith Barry and Sandra Alterger. Abroad, Kay has shown in England, Yugoslavia, Poland, Austria and the United States.
Kay has been elected to memberships in the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Ontario Society of Artists, Canadian Society of Graphic Arts, Canadian Society of Printer-Etchers and Engravers, and the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto. Her work can be found in numerous public collections throughout Ontario.
For twenty years Kay devoted her time to the exacting work of printmaking and earned a significant reputation as a printmaker. Enter a corporation building in Toronto and you will likely find a Kay Murray-Weber print. “Gallery News” has information on a printmaking retrospective held during the month of May at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. It was a marvellous opportunity to see and to purchase prints from this time in her career.
Since 1985 Kay has returned to painting with oils and watercolours. "Painting allows more freedom...ideas can be worked out more quickly, more expressively, soft edges easily manipulated."
1919 – 2007
KAY MURRAY-WEBER
Toronto, Ontario
e-mail kmurray.weber@rogers.com
