Aunt Emily Original Oil
Image Size: 26" x 25"
Edition Name:
Edition Size: Original Oil
There sat Aunt Emily (103) by the window in her favorite chair, like a queen on her throne... her royal cape over her shoulders.. the delicate light of dawn dancing over her face. "...her all knowing glimmer ...the secrets she holds...her forever majesty!" We felt as though we were in the presence of a queen; when she spoke her stories spilled out like music in a song. She told us of days long past. Still, we were awed by...
Bruce Whaley - the Last Moonshiner
Image Size:
Edition Name: Original
Edition Size: approx 16 x 20
First in a series of a life study of a lifetime Moonshiner brought up in what was the toughest county in the U.S., Taking care of his family with "White Lightening" since age 12. First in a series of a life study of a lifetime Moonshiner brought up in what was the toughest county in the U.S., Taking care of his family with "White Lightening" since age 12.First in a series of a life study of a lifetime Moonshiner brought...
Sleeping Briar
Image Size: 54" h x 44"w
Edition Name: Original Pencil
Edition Size:
Original pencil Zoe' with sleeping Rabbit
Zoe in Gold
Image Size: 26.5 x 24
Edition Name: Original
Edition Size:
Original Pastel - major
Coalminer's Kid Charcoal
Image Size: 46" x 42" framed
Edition Name: Original
Edition Size:
Her big beautiful eyes bring you into her world. Paul’s intimate and powerful talent brings you so close to her, you could almost know what she is thinking and what she is doing or what is in her world. She lives in coal mining country deep in the woods of the Appalachian Mountains; the only girl in a long row of boys. She will break the tradition of five generations of coal miners. She’ll not be going down below with...
Lily Can pencil
Image Size:
Edition Name: Original
Edition Size:
Original pencil study
John Proffit & Ol' Woman Pencil
Image Size: 48" x 49" framed
Edition Name:
Edition Size: Original
"John is a bachelor, lives on his own unless he takes to helpin' a friend in need. He is pretty handy, he can fix anything, the evidence is all over his yard. He has waited for Kathy to walk away to tell Paul "this ol' woman I got me is reliable, she helps keep me warm at night, an' hits the only ol' woman that'll git on my back again!!"
towards-original-w-title-okd-email
Image Size: 96 x 60
Edition Name: original Oil almost finished
Edition Size:
Paul Murray Peoples Choice Award in competition and gained top 10 out of 2675 artist.
homeward-web-drkst-best
Image Size: 84 x 55 approx
Edition Name: Oil original work in progress
Edition Size:
See Paul Murray's only major painting of the Smoky Mountains. See these ancient mountians through the eyes of a child that had fallen in love with this area since age 5. See how the mountains and its people feed his soul. A local mountain man “Red”, says, “I’m just a possum eatin’ ridgerunnr”, don’t let that fool you. He is among the most wise people I know, and hard workin’ too. Red still lives as he did...
Hadea Mae & Ol' Persuader Original Pencil
Image Size: 28" x 26"
Edition Name: Original Pencil Study
Edition Size:
work in progress
Boot Hill (Work in Progress)
Image Size:
Edition Name:
Edition Size: Original Watercolor
Boot Hill call to be put on our "keep informed" list for "Boot Hill" He is a favourite of many.
All Mine Original Pastel
Image Size: 15" x 17" image
Edition Name: Original Pastel
Edition Size:
"you've seen their faces; you've heard their voices. Always, they'll stand solemn and aloof as a stranger approaches. They tell me' ...if you ain't bin born in these here mountins, yer a furriner ferever'. They are hopefull faces, shy faces. This is a place of melancholy beauty and bucolic melancholy. In such isolated hollows live the remaining so-called "Hillbillies of Appalachia" and my new series. I will take you to places in the Southern Appalachians that few outsiders have ever...
Coal pencil study
Image Size: 9" x 13"
Edition Name: Original Study
Edition Size:
"Down From The Mountain original collection" Paul is sharing his on location and intimate studio sketches that help create the final piece. These were never meant for public viewing, just for artist reference. You will see notes and reminders on them, that were done while drawing for the first time many of these people in his works. So there may or may not be more images of a certain character. So Paul Murray says they are "RARE, RAW, and RIDICULOUS"....
Kentucky Coal with Puppy & Cabin
Image Size: frame size 17"w x 18"h
Edition Name: Original color pencil & pencil
Edition Size:
Her big beautiful eyes bring you into her world. Paul’s intimate and powerful talent brings you so close to her, you could almost know what she is thinking and what she is doing or what is in her world. She lives in coal mining country deep in the woods of the Appalachian Mountains; the only girl in a long row of boys. She will break the tradition of five generations of coal miners. She’ll not be going down below with...