Sabine

Baeckmann-Murray

Sabine Baeckmann-Murray bio 6/2025 Sabine Baeckmann is a seasoned artist and designer with over 40 years experience in medical and scientific illustration, pharmaceutical advertising, design and marketing, as well as in teaching and training in the fine art and digital art fields. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Applied Arts degree from Pace University, NY in Medical/Scientific Illustration, with minors in Pre-med and Psychology, and some Masters coursework in Art/Art Therapy at NYU. Over the next 40+years, she had worked as an illustrator and creative director on numerous medical and pharmaceutical marketing projects. She has illustrated surgical guides for medical prosthetics manufacturers, worked as a designer and advertising manager for a medical products manufacturer, and was an art director on numerous pharmaceutical product launches over the course of her career. Sabine left the NY/NJ advertising field and moved to Pagosa Springs, CO with her family in early 2002, where she studied under renowned illustrator and watercolor realist, Pierre Mion. Mion, famous for his years spent as illustrator for National Geographic, was protégé and collaborator to Norman Rockwell for 12 years (www.pierremion.com). Now living in North Carolina with her husband Richard, Sabine has been teaching art privately and conducts art workshops, including watercolor, oils, acrylics, and illustration, as well as working on her own paintings and illustrations. She currently is a member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, Wilmington Art Association, the Art League of Leland, the Waterway Arts Association, the Watercolor Society of North Carolina, is on the board of directors of the Wildlife Artists of the Carolinas, and is President/Founder of the Greater Topsail Art Association. She also exhibits as studio associate at ArtExposure Gallery in Hampstead and is represented by The Seacoast Artist Gallery and Guild in Myrtle Beach, SC. She routinely participates in local and national exhibits and gallery shows, and has recently had artwork featured in the April, May and June 2019 Art Edit Editions of House & Garden Magazine, in the November 2020 Issue of Wrightsville Beach Magazine, a Creative excellence is a priority in Sabine’s professional work as a fine artist, and has also been reflected throughout her extensive career as a creative director, designer and trainer in the creative arts field. Her art can be seen at www.sabinebaeckmannart.com

The driving force behind my paintings is an enduring love of the natural world, in the spirit of creation, and its emotional resonance over time that manifests itself in our relationship with nature. Much of the wonder and appreciation of the natural world I developed as a result of my education, which includes a Bachelor of Science degree in applied arts (medical/scientific illustration) and masters work in Art Therapy, and nearly 40 years as a medical illustrator and designer. To me, the notion of deeply connecting with the natural world through art is equally an impressive fete, and it is central in my process. Leaning on my drive for capturing realism, I revel in visually documenting the soul of an animal through its eyes, the feeling of freedom embodied in the splash of running horses through the surf, the endless rise and fall of the ocean, the diminutive curiosity of a honey bee among brilliant flowers. All are experiences that help me shape a human connection to nature.

Acrylic, Charcoal, Colored Pencil, Computer Illustration, Drawing, Graphic Design, Oil / Alkyd, Pastels/Oil Pastels, Pen/Ink, Watercolor/Gouache

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