Tag Archive: Jef Murray

Sep 06

The New 2014 Chronicles Calendar!

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Artist Commentary: This is my first-ever calendar designed for all lovers of childhood tales. Open its pages to enter enchanted lands, encounter talking trees and animals, and embark on noble quests. Within the calendar, you will discover full colour painting and sketch images (fauns, lions, badgers, unicorns, centaurs, valiant mice) from my original Narnia-inspired galleries.

This calendar marks moon phases, solstices and equinoxes, and international holidays. It also includes a 17 inch tall centerfold print of After the Storm.

All calendars are signed by the artist. Tog purchase yours, click here.

 

* The images in this calendar are entirely the property of Jef Murray, and this calendar is not approved, authorized, or licensed by the C.S. Lewis estate, or any other rights holders to copyrighted works. 

Aug 25

The City of Kings

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The City of Kings”

Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: Before dawn on Saturday I rode the Pelennor Fields and arrived at the Great Gate guarding the Tower of the Setting Sun. There I passed through the Othram and entered the lowest level of this once great city. Forlorn, she seemed now, and desolate; her people, still proud, were nonetheless few, and they were wary of ill news and of strangers.

I led Brego to the southeastern gate and to the city’s second level. Here the golden light of dawn began to break over the distant peaks of the Ephel Dúath, and as we made our way toward the third level gate, I paused, gave Brego some hay, and set up my easel. The halls and columns of the city bloomed roseate in the new morning light, and they soared above us to impossible heights. The cobbled streets were wet with the morning dew, and glinted in mist-laden air. Despite the evil of these times, I thought, one can still find hope and faith in such beauty.

While I plied my paints, I perceived the sound of hooves upon the cobbles, and soon a great silver stallion appeared. He bore upon his bare back a grey-cloaked figure, who clutched before him what I took to be a curly-headed child. The stallion galloped past us like the wind, and Brego whinnied a greeting. But even as he did so, the horse and riders were gone, flying toward the northeastern gate. I knew not what omen might be borne by these travellers on their mighty steed, but in these days, I feared theirs could not be glad tidings for the brave souls in this City of Kings.

13″x21″ wide signed and numbered prints – AVAILABLE! Please click here.

13″x21″ original oil painting – $1600.00 US plus shipping.

To purchase this original painting, please click here.

 

 

Aug 25

Bucklebury

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Bucklebury”

Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: On Saturday, I hiked the hills of Bucklebury, near Brandy Hall. The midsummer air was clear and cool after the rains, and legions of wildflowers sprang in gilt splendour from the fragrant loam.

Atop a high ridge south of the Hall, I stopped to breathe in perfumed air and to paint. Two hobbit children gathered roses near the front steps of their smial, and in the distance, the meandering Baranduin wandered away toward the south, its confluence with the Withywindle lost in the blue haze of distance, and of time.

13″x21″ wide signed and numbered prints – AVAILABLE! Please click here.

13″x21″ original oil painting – $1400.00 US plus shipping.

To purchase this original painting, please click here.

 

 

Nov 02

Many Meetings

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Many Meetings”
Oil on canvas, 21″x13″ wide.

Artist Commentary: I spent Saturday above the gorge of Bruinen, along the western slopes of Karningul. The purple peaks of the Misty Mountains loomed in the late morning, and the soft light of autumn filtered crystalline through turquoise skies. I set up my easel on the curved path, beside ivy-strewn balusters, and sought to capture the rich cadmium golds and reds of the trees below.

While I worked, two halflings approached from the Last Homely House: one young, cloaked, and raven-haired, and the other older, sporting a red velvet coat and steadying himself with his ebony cane. They barely noticed me as they passed by, so deep were they in conversation about their home in the far flung lands westward.

21″x13″ wide signed and numbered prints – AVAILABLE! Please click here.

21″x13″ original oil painting – $1200.00 US plus shipping.

To purchase this original painting, please click here.

 

 

Nov 02

Boromir Fallen

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“Boromir Fallen”
Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: Saturday at dawn I hiked the western shores of Nen Hithoel, wending my way southward toward the triple peaks that crown the falls of Rauros. Upon the green sward of Parth Galen, I paused to admire Tol Brandir’s hewn heights, when suddenly a huntsman’s horn sounded from the forest behind me. Urgent came that call, and I dropped my gear and sprang up the sylvan slopes of Amon Hen to render what aid I might.

The winding of the horn ceased, but I ran on, coming at last upon a glade littered with the lifeless bodies of orcs. But propped against a tree, on the edge of the clearing, I descried the huntsman, motionless, seated on the ground with broken sword still clasped in his mighty hand. He was pierced with many arrows, and beside him knelt a cloaked companion. I stood in silence before these two great men: the one having been released from all suffering; the other with head bowed in sorrow and hands clasped before him in the still, golden light of morning.

13″x21″ wide signed and numbered prints – AVAILABLE! Please click here.

13″x21″ original oil painting – $1400.00 US plus shipping.

To purchase this original painting, please click here.

 

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