Paul Murray

ME:
Lover of art, music, food, plants, trees, camping, coffee, movies, celebrities, pop culture, animals, decorating, travel, musicals, things of interest....and much more. I grew up in Alaska and Colorado, and currently in Los Angeles. in a middle class family and was smothered with love from my parents.

ART:
I have always considered myself the Patron Saint of Arts & Crafts. Starting with macrame, origami, hooked rugs and sand sculptures when I was a kid, and all these years later...I'm still making art. I'm a mixed media artist who works mostly in tin and metal. For me, the perfect day is one where I find something really great, that I know I can use, and my imagination runs rampant with possibilities. There is nothing better than finding things cast off as old, broken and unusable, and turning them into something new and interesting. I always try to make my art fun and not too serious. The more someone can relate to it, the better I've done my job. My art is often classified as............. whimsical.

INTERESTS:
Let's see...Cooking, My Pets (two dogs & two cats!), Sleepy Hollow, Titanic, Lizzie Borden, NYC, Loch Ness Monster, Barbra streisand, the Romanovs, Disneyland, Sweeny Todd, Broadway Musicals, Movies, Books, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Julie Andrews, The Sound Of Music, Salem Witch Trials, Jack the Ripper, John Merrick the Elephant Man, Industrial London, Helen Keller, Bigfoot, UFO's, Cemeteries, The Olympics, Italy,

I live and work out of my home studio in South Pasadena, where I live with my partner Joe, two dogs and two cats. My Etsy store is www.rufusandpaco.etsy.com and my art is also sold at Zinnia's in South Pasadena, where I also teach classes.

Deepest Secret: Now if I told you...it wouldn't be a secret would it?

Favorite place: Yosemite and London

Most surprising thing about me: Sometimes I eat baby cereal for dinner.
Easy on the stomach!

Least surprising thing about me? Hello! I'm GAY!

Favorite Quote: "Tell them it's absolutely safe, it's like taking off a tight shoe"
-- From a disembodied spirit to a medium during a seance.