Jane Murray is a painter working mainly in watercolour. Her work varies from detailed botanical studies to larger out-of-scale, tending towards abstract, compositions. At the moment her starting points are the flowers and vegetables which she grows in her own garden.

Jane has been exhibiting for nearly 30 years, having drawn and painted all her life and after school did a foundation course at Leicester College of Art. She then completed a degree in Fine Art at Hull.

Later she started designing greetings cards but found it limiting so started to enlarge her designs and sell them as pictures. She became more and more interested and involved in the intricacies and beauty of natural forms. For many years she painted flowers from life but gradually departed from her obsession with detail and moved towards a looser more painterly style. She started using accessories such as jugs and plates, fabrics and shells.

Recently she has started working on a series of vegetable paintings based on subjects grown in her own garden including a red cabbage, courgettes, radishes and rhubarb.