Maria Murray is a multi-talented and passionate artist who uses whatever media is appropriate to create the image she wants to produce.  Based in the beautiful village of North Waltham, she is described as a nature-obsessed, flower-loving, story telling artist.  She explains her deep understanding of the why behind her work - a blend of a love of gardening coming from covid and a deep and long interest in relationships leading to the creation of her flower scanography . As she chats with Margaret, we learn how a number of recent life changes led her to reassess her life.  It is refreshing to hear her views on simplifying her life, generating more room for creativity and spending more time with loved ones. The bottom line is that we can choose how to spend our time and she doesn't want to look back and have spend 80% of her life working. Home is with your people. Change is something that Maria advocates.  She eloquently tells how she has needed time to absorb the feelings of loss experienced this last year. After consciously deciding to scale down work, hear her philosophy on how she has adapted and embraced this next stage of her life and simplified her life.  She is happy now to 'thrive rather than strive'. https://www.instagram.com/mariamurraycreative/ https://bio.site/mariamurraycreative