An Artist's Journey
Meredith Murray had spent years searching for artistic inspiration. She found it nine years ago in Australia and hasn't stopped drawing since
The last time George Pembleton saw Meredith Murray was seven years ago. Murray and her mother were at Kinkos photocopying small drawings of black and white figures – compelling images that drew Pembleton from across the room. He discovered that Murray had just returned from Australia, and was copying the art she made while traveling there. She couldn't afford to make them into real prints, so she was mounting the copies onto foam board with the hope that somebody else could. Pembleton bought five of the pieces, at $100 per image, and turned them into prints for his home. "I'd seen a lot of ink and stencil work, but I've never seen anything like that," Pembleton said of the drawings. "You can interpret it however you like but there's …