Artist Keith Murdoch was born in Liverpool in 1972. He went on to study Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire.

Shortly after he graduated, Keith Murdoch founded and ran the non-for-profit gallery 'Art in the Square'. The artist led gallery was based in the centre of Liverpool. In the same year, Keith Murdoch began painting the great outdoors in-situ, using acrylic paints and utilizing their immediacy. After gaining his Adult teacher training certificate, Murdoch went on to work in a variety of educational settings, becoming a lecturer and life drawing tutor. Keith also ran workshops at the National Wildflower Centre in Liverpool.

In 2002, Keith Murdoch returned to studying, and attended John Moores University for an MA in Multimedia Arts. Shortly after this, Keith moved away from Liverpool to Leeds, and struggled to find art related teaching posts. ''This led to taking a string of menial part-time jobs in order to fund my painting practice,'' Murdoch says. Another move this time to the North East has seen him respond to the inspiration of the North East Coastline with an inspired enthusiasm. He now produces abstract paintings in the colourist tradition with bright, uplifting colours. There is a vibrancy and energy in his oil paintings which are highly prized.

Speaking about his art works Keith says: 'I paint from life. I trawl the areas close to where I live for elements of landscape, cityscape or coastal features that I find interesting, staring into the scene until the colours begin to dance and point me in the right direction.'

Each painting at Red Rag is sourced from the Keith Murdoch artist studio and like all Red Rag British art and Contemporary art it can be shipped worldwide. Red Rag Gallery also promotes art prints by Keith Murdoch.