Peggy Murphy is a Seattle painter and University of Washington alumnus whose passion for the materiality and physicality of the creative process yields fantastic, fascinating gestural abstractions. Nature, understated symbology, and intriguing suggestions of hidden stories all coalesce into a beautiful body of work that has been shown at ArtsWest, Phinney Center, Pratt Gallery, Seattle Design Center, and Shift Gallery, where she is currently a member. In our chat about her current work, which is on view at Shift Gallery through August 27, we talk about life and death, control and chaos, and the almost-sacredness of blue.