Joan Murray lives and works in East Anglia, England, where she has a studio at her home in Lowestoft, the most easterly town in Britain. Joan works in a variety of materials, exploring ideas across a number of disciplines. Along with collaborative projects she has a number of personal themes to which she returns. The linear element of drawing is a central part of her vocabularly - drawing being a major part of her work and teaching.

Joan's work often crosses the boundaries between art and craft.

In 1986 Joan introduced clay into her studio and now often combines it with other media. The process of drawing or marking the clay surface has formed a major part of her artistic practice.

Joan's clay stamp can be found illustrated in BRITISH STUDIO POTTERS' MARKS COMPILED BY ERIC YATES-OWEN AND ROBERT FOURNIER, A & C BLACK, 1998. Her ceramic work and working methods are described and illustrated in THE ART OF HAND BUILT CERAMICS BY SUSAN BRUCE, THE CROW PRESS, 2000.