Alisa Murray

Nationally renowned for her innovative style capturing newborns and expectant mothers, portrait artist Alisa  become one of Texas’ most sought after photographers.  Her artistic portraits are in essence snapshots of her subject’s spirit and have been featured on numerous magazine covers, in her nationally distributed calendars, Hope and Inspiration:  Surviving Mothers of Breast Cancer and Small Miracles, and now, in the book, Always Hope, a collection of inspirational stories featuring portraits by Murray published in 2010.

With clients from across the United States, Murray’s work has been exhibited at St. Mary’s College, Raleigh, North Carolina, and her collection of fine art newborns hangs in a permanent exhibition at Memorial Hermann Hospital, Sugar Land, Texas.  Additionally, work from her Art and Medicine series is on permanent exhibit at MD Anderson Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, and soon, at Texas Children’s Hospital, all in Houston’s Medical Center.

 

The Author & Speaker

With her success as a portrait artist, Murray spread her creative wings and has become an award-winning columnist.  In 2006, Murray began writing her column, Living the Sweet Life, that appears monthly in Fort Bend Focus Magazine.  Filled with stores from her childhood, personal triumphs and tribulations and advice from a mom, artist, business owner and wife, Living the Sweet Life has an avid following and has twice won First Place for the Best Original Column from the Texas Community Newspapers Association.   In 2009, Murray began writing Woman to Woman, a column featured quarterly in Focus on Women Magazine, and she is a featured speaker at numerous events in the greater Houston area.

Living the Sweet Life

My feature column, Living the Sweet Life, has been an amazing journey. I was initially asked to write about my children’s rooms, and after that first article, I was awarded my own column.  I named it Living the Sweet Life and with a readership of over 60,000 each month, I have been able to touch many lives.

The column has won 1st Place twice now for “Best Original Column” by the TCNA.  Each month, I try to create a piece that is inspiring and touching, sometimes funny and always entertaining! I have always wanted to be a writer and this opportunity to create in a new way, other than through my photography, has in fact touched so many lives. I am blessed to be able to stretch my creative abilities in new and innovative directions. Below you will find an archive of the column from its beginning in 2006 to present.