Inka (Christie Murray) is a South African artist whose work is rooted in emotion, memory, and the ever-changing nature of being.
Working intuitively across oil, acrylic, spray paint, collage, and glazing techniques, she does not confine herself to a single style. While known for her bold impasto, her practice extends into layered, experimental processes where texture, transparency, and movement become part of the story. Her paintings are not bound to literal representation. Landscapes become emotional terrains, and portraits are not depictions of people, but of presence—of something felt rather than seen.
Living and working on a farm in Mpumalanga, Inka draws deeply from nature—its resilience, its unpredictability, and its quiet wisdom. Her work reflects a life lived closely with both beauty and hardship.
Having experienced deep personal loss, her art carries an understanding of what it means to break, to rebuild, and to become. This lived experience shapes her visual language—one that embraces vulnerability, strength, and transformation.
For Inka, painting is not about rules or perfection.
It is a language.
A process of change.
A way of allowing what is within to surface—honestly and without restraint.
