Authors and Their Art Kathy L. Murphy

Artist, Author, Chameleon, and Queen!

You see in everything I do as an artist I am creating to put my own spin on how everything should be perceived. I myself am a canvas. When not in my paint clothes I am either doing a Zoom meeting or going out into the world with a costume in mind for whatever the occasion. Every day is dressing up. I put myself through college being a hairdresser, a cut and colorist, and makeup artist too. These daily rituals come in to play to create a unique look as I love to entertain the possibilities of perception. I like to do what has not done before so whether I am as a circus ringmaster, juggling my art life, my International Pulpwood Queens ad Timber Guys Book Clubs, their online programs and annual book club convention, or writing either my blogs or working on my next book, I don’t sit still long and then there is my art. I do most everything like a three ring circus with my rescue cats being my animal act. They are perfectly untrained and mostly “crack the whip” at me so to speak on letting them in and out of my little cabin in the woods called Murphy’s law. My art studio is just a few steps outside in it’s own headquarters. So all I can say is be surprised, it is too hard to sum up in mere words on one page.

I earned my B.F.A. in Art with a minor in Art History at the University of Texas in Tyler, Texas and the artwork I have featured for these designs will help finance my continuing education for my M.F.A. Everything I create is inspired by my love of nature and my love of reading! Ever since I was a small child I have been lost in nature thanks to all the neighborhood mothers who booted us all outside for the day. I only came in when my mother rang this old school bell trudging in in despair as hot in pursuit playing kick the can. We ran wild, free, and created through our own imaginations worlds that we wanted to live in. My teachers who were also our librarians hand selected books that they thought we would want to read. I was hooked from an early age and then we liked to played dress up, getting our pets involved whether playing Tarzan or scenes from The Jungle Book, Treasure Island or the land of Peter Pan and Wendy. Our imaginations were our only boundaries and to this day that has always stayed with my now sixty four year old self. Do not try to put me in a box because for me, there is no box, no boundaries beyond my vivid and fully in color imagination.

I dream BIG and hope that in this world of sharing all the beauty in the world through my art will inspire you to DREAM BIG too. We only get one life and I plan on living every minute of it.

You don’t want to miss Kathy’s Saturday night Book to Film Club - you never know who’s going to show up!