Richard Murray is a native Utah artist whose oil paintings represent the traditional values of landscape artists from Turner to the American Impressionists.  While he was still a student at the University of Utah, studying under the late Alvin Gittins, he began his career by entering exhibitions and competitions throughout the Intermountain West. He presented his first one man show at the Springville museum of Art in 1971. Since that time he has shown regularly in nearly twenty-six one man shows. He is represented by galleries throughout the Intermountain and Western United States.

 Murray has traveled extensively in Africa, the Mediterranean, Central America, the British Isles and the United States. Therefore, gaining reference material for painting from all over the world. Much of his work reflects his love of the deserts and mountains in his native state of Utah.  He frequently paints the rocks and water landscapes of southern Utah, and his recent works include life-size domestic and wild animals and birds.

 Murray is intrigued by light and water and the effects of rain, mist, snow and dust, on the land. He describes his work as becoming more impressionistic with time, and hopes to achieve a subtle treatment of subject matter and mood in his work that will evoke an emotional response from the viewer.