Glacial Melt, 2024

Copper etching with aquatint and chine colle

16 x 19 in.

I have been working at KALA on a series of etchings inspired by my travel in the Arctic and concerns for the effects of climate change on glaciers and the Arctic environment.

About the artist:

Born and raised in the District of Columbia, Margaret E. Murray has lived in San Francisco for most of her life. Inspired by living at the edge of the continent near the vast Pacific Ocean, she returns frequently to the south Atlantic coast and has spent time in the Caribbean, Australia, and the Arctic. Her abstract landscapes in intaglio, relief, and monotype emphasize color, shape, texture, and pattern.

Murray is an artist in residence at KALA Art Institute in Berkeley and a past member of Graphic Arts Workshop in San Francisco. She has exhibited her work locally and nationally. Murray studied printmaking at the City College of San Francisco, KALA, Crown Point Press, and the San Francisco Center for the Book and holds a BA in Semiotics from Brown University and a JD from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Making has been her way of life since she was a child, and pressing ink into paper is a thrill hard-wired into her by her great-grandfather, a Scottish letterpress man.