Artist Paul Murphy

A level Art. Foundation Fine Art Liverpool, my home town. BA hons Fine Art, GCAD, Cheltenham. Painting, re directed to sculpture. Bronze Foundry course RCA Fiorini Art Bronze Foundry Parson's Green Fulham; mould and wax technician. Worked on Henry Moore's small maquettes, the ones he actually made himself! Represented by Alwyn Gallery New Bond St for a while early eighties; Bronze sculptures. RA summer exhibition 1982: Semi abstract bronze sculpture; Twisting Form at first submission. Life events, change of direction. Family. My life took some unexpected turns. I decided to leave London mainly because I needed to be in a more natural environment. I came to find city life increasingly claustrophobic. I never lost my love of and need for art. It's a strange thing that just doesn't go away. I have tried many forms of two and three dimensional art and have even put quite a lot of effort into creating Bonsai in the past. I trained as an Occupational Therapist and Qualified in 1992. This has given me a very different focus on life and broadened my experience and knowledge enormously. The 1990's, saw a rekindled interest in painting. I continued to make small ceramic sculpture, mainly figures and animals and painted landscapes in watercolor most of which I gave away. Current artistic interest: Landscape Painting; I am interested in the practice of Plein Air painting as a reference for works in the studio. Photography; mainly landscape and macro studies. Artistic inspiration; the English Landscape painters; Cotman, Girtin Turner, Constable. Samuel Palmer. Many 20th century painters and sculptors. Contemporary painters, Eric Merrell, Jeremy Lipking, Julian Merrow-Smith.

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Shady River Size: 15.00" x 10.00" Price: £325.00	Evening Light Glasson Marsh Size: 10.00" x 8.00" Price: £175.00	Bleasedale in Winter Size: 12.00" x 10.00" Price: £295.00
Red Rose Size: 6.00" x 8.00" Price: £75.00	Birch Trees, Whitbarrow Size: 10.00" x 8.00" Price: £200.00	Stream, Trough of Bowland Size: 12.00" x 10.00" Price: £195.00
Sunlit Pines Size: 6.00" x 8.00" Price: £65.00	Blue Tit Size: 11.00" x 14.00" Price: £95.00 Sold	Winter Birches, Whitbarrow, Cumbria Size: 9.00" x 12.00" Price: £195.00 Sold

9 artworks.