Michael Murray

Michael Murray was born in Irvine on the West coast of Scotland in 1978. He is a qualified product designer, ex games artist, and currently a professional digital fine artist. He works primarily on commission work for corporate and private clients, in the UK and internationally, as well as exhibiting his own personal work within the highly regarded Scottish arts scene. Michael Murray graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 2000 with a degree in Product Design, but then developed an interest in computer game art. After spending a couple of years as a games artist working on a LEGO title in London, he returned home to Scotland to pursue a career as a digital fine artist. Currently based in the west end of Glasgow, Scotland, he works on designing and supplying bespoke art for offices, bars, restaurants, cafes, hotels, and private homes, and as creating art for special luxury gifts, and for design and advertising. In addition to his art commission work he also designs fine art pieces for international exhibitions, galleries, art fairs, and to sell directly to clients and customers. He is now fully accepted as a Scottish fine artist in the highly regarded Scottish art scene which includes artists such as Peter Howson, John Bellany, Avril Paton, Pam carter, and Jim Wylie, who was actually Michael's art teacher at secondary school. Michaels work and style varies considerably but generally involves photography along with Photoshop and 3D Studio Max to create exciting original and contemporary pieces of art, and varies from stylish photographic collages and abstracts up to highly complex digital mixed media aerial scenes of real or conceptual locations.