Stretching Light Original Artwork

6 X 8 Oil on Canvas

Enchanted by the ever changing shapes, textures, movement, and shifting lights and shadows to be found in nature, I have spent my entire artistic career pursuing and creating ways of transferring this overwhelming drama to a two dimensional surface. My ultimate intention is to allow the viewer to take a walk metaphorically into the canvas to explore the treasures to be found there. Nature is seldom serene and quiet green fields presided over by red barns and quiet cattle munching on green grass. Having rafted many wild rivers, including the Grand Canyon, where the waves are as big as the side of a house, I have seen things that constantly whisper in my ears like a persistent muse.

Tangled bushes, multicolored rock with sparkling, splashing water eating across their surface, tired fading sunlight still revealing roots and crags and hidden secrets even as it retreats to darkness. The nature found in my experience refuses to be static. Even the white snows of winter are dripping or blowing or bearing down with a heavy hand on tree branches freezing into long tendrils of icicles, the leaves still clinging there. Are these wildly changing scenes visible in my work? Does the chaotic beauty reach inside you and pull your heart strings? Whatever paint and canvas can do to create the desire in the viewer to touch and feel and explore more deeply is my constant pursuit.

I have experimented, slaved, and anguished over each of the 10,000 brushstrokes, color decisions, conflicting shapes and shadows that make up the work. It is the entire purpose of the landscapes in this collection to leave you as the viewer spellbound and awe struck with the magnificence that surrounds us. Study more carefully and see little creatures, unusual patterns or the unexpected as they are revealed to you. As the light changes, the painted surface will change before your very eyes, transporting you to yet another vision. Watching your captivation is my extreme delight as an artist and the driving force of my career.

Original artwork of Oil on Canvas 6 x 8. Framed at 11 x 13.

Torgesen Murdocks’ spontaneous and energetic style, along with a strong color and design sense, have caused her collectors to comment that her art changes with the mood and feelings of the viewer and becomes more intriguing the longer they own each work.

Torgesen Murdock was raised on a ranch in Soda Springs, Idaho.  She sketched and painted to while away idle hours and was always in demand as an illustrator for schools and civic groups. She attended universities in Hawaii and Utah and graduated from Utah State University in Logan, Utah, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with honors.  She studied with such notables as Alvin Gittins of the University of Utah and Joseph Mugnaini of Otis in Los Angeles, as well as Gaell Lindstrom, Adrian Van Suchtlan, Harrison Groutage, Ovanes Berberian, and Harley Brown.  She went on to work toward a Masters Degree and to teach art for organizations and in private workshops.

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