Cora Murphy

When I first moved to Cork, I had just learned to drive and so went out to West Cork at every opportunity. Driving really helped me to 'see' where I was going! This painting began in the hills above Adrigole – the intensity of the green and blues there could take your breath away

• Oil on Canvas
• 50cm x 40cm
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In May 2011, I spent a month in residency at the Custom House Studio in Westport, Co. Mayo. My studio looked out onto Clew Bay – In this painting I am attempting to capture the stillness of that landscapes and the constancy of the clouds.

• Oil on Canvas
• On white mount, framed in ash white box frame to 39cm X 39cm
• 20cm x 20cm
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Kerry Gold II' is from a series made during one of many painting trips to Kerry. The abundance of the landscape there from Bog to Beaches constantly informs my work.

• Oil on Board
• 16cm x 30cm
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While in residence on the Cill Rialaig project, I like to walk the beach each morning – this painting was inspired by one such morning walk.

• Oil on Canvas
• On white mount, framed in ash white box frame to 39cm X 39cm
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This painting was inspired by one of my first driving trips to West Cork – the luminosity of the green and blues there always strike me.

• Oil on Canvas
• 22cm x 30cm
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This was painted following a trip on the Ring of Kerry on one of those solemn soggy days – classic to Kerry. Whatever the fog limits in view it always makes up for in atmosphere!

• Oil on Canvas
• On white mount, framed in ash white box frame to 39cm x 39cm
• 20cm x 20cm
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This Diptych was made during a residency at the Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat in Ballinskelligs – it is the view out from across the beach.

• Oil, Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
• Diptych
• 26cm x 15cm
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My cottage at the Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat looked out across the water to the historical Skelligs – somedays the view was entirely clear and the Skelligs loomed large in the landscape - on other days you couldn't see beyond the water.

• Oil on Linen
• 20cm x 17cm
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