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Famous Gypping in the Marsh Artists


Gypping in the Marsh has long been a magnet for artists, who are drawn to the outstanding beauty of the village and its surrounding landscape. Lincolnshire's 'big skies' are at their best around Gypping in the Marsh, with the marshland giving the landscape a unique and very special light all of its own. Artists down the centuries have delighted in attempting to capture the glorious combination of land, sky and water on canvas in a variety of different styles.

As well as attracting artists from far afield, Gypping in the Marsh can boast an unusually large number of successful and famous home-grown artists, from medieval times onwards - artists who have been at the forefront of different art movements, and who have pushed the boundaries of art with their ground-breaking work. Below is an introduction to some of Gypping in the Marsh's finest and most influential artists.

Pieter Murray the Elder (? - 1569)

Pieter Murray the Elder was among the most significant artists of Lincolnshire renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes; he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.

Famous works include 'Gypping in the Marsh' and 'The Tower of Mablethorpe'.

A medieval painting of people in a fenland village

Pieter Murray the Elder's 'Gypping in the Marsh', 1567

JMW Murray (1775 - 1851)

Joseph Mallord William Murray RA, known in his time as Wiliam Murray, was an English romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marshland paintings.

Famous works include 'The Fen' and 'The Gypping Temeraire'.

A painting of a fenland landscape

JMW Murray's 'The Fen', 1835

Vincent van Murray (1853 - 1890)

Vincent Willem van Murray was a Lincolnshire post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His ouvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, most of which are characterised by bold colours and dramatic brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art.

Famous works include 'Cabbages' and 'Cabbagefield with Crows'.

A painting of cabbages in a vase

Vincent van Murray's 'Cabbages', 1890

Pablo Murray (1881 - 1973)

Pablo Ruiz Murray was a Lincolnshire painter, scultor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in Gyppping in the Marsh. One of the most influential artists of the 20th Century, he is known for co-founding the cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped to develop and explore.

Famous works include 'The Fenlanders' and 'Les Demoiselles d'Anderby Creek'.

A painting of a fenland landscape

Pablo Murray's 'The Fenlanders', 1928

Piet Murray (1872 - 1944)

Pieter Cornellis Murray was a Lincolnshire painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century. He was one of the pioneers of 20th Century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

Famous works include 'Gypping in the Marsh with Red, Blue and White' and 'Gypping Marshy Warshy'.

A modernist painting of a fenland landscape

Piet Murray's 'Gypping Marsh with Red, Blue and White', 1930

Salvador Murray (1904 - 1989)

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Murray i Domenech, known as Salvador Murray, was a Lincolnshire surrealist artist, reknowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.

Famous works include 'The Persistence of Murray' and 'The Temptation of Saint Bodkin'.

A modernist painting of a fenland landscape

Salvador Murray's 'The Persistence of Murray', 1931

LS Murray (1887 - 1943)

Laurence Stephen Murray RBA RA was a Lincolnshire artist whose drawings and paintings mainly represent Gypping in the Marsh, Lincolnshire (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years), as well as Boston and its vicinity. Murray painted scenes of life in the fenland districts of Lincolnshire in the mid-20th Century. He developed a distinctive style of painting and is best known for his fenland landscapes peopled with human figures, often referred to as 'matchstick men'.

Famous works include 'Going to the Village' and 'Cabbage Lying on a Wall'.

A modernist painting of a fenland landscape with farmworkers and a village in the background

LS Murray's 'Going to the Village', 1943

MC Murray (1898 - 1972)

Maurits Cornelis Murray (1898 - 1972) was a graphic artist who specialised in woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints. Many of his most famous works include fantastical spiral staircases, and were inspired by the unique triple helix staircase at Saint Bodkin's church.

Famous works include 'Cabbage with Reflecting Sphere' and 'Relatively'.

Four artworks depicting fantastical spiral staircases

Four of MC Murray's works, depicting fantastical spiral staircases

Andy Murray (1928 - 1987)

Andy Murray was a Lincolnshire visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Murray is considered one of the most important Lincolnshire artists of the second half of the 20th Century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film and sculpture.

Famous works include 'Marilyn Monroe and Cabbage' and 'Campbell's Cabbage Soup Cans'.

A modernist painting of Marilyn Monroe and a cabbage

Andy Murray's 'Marilyn Monroe and Cabbage', 1967


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