Paintings of Mexico, Collage Art, Contemporary Irish Art, Emerging Irish Artist,

Desert Rose
This was one of the first paintings I made in the Baja. Except for paint, I relied on found and natural objects to depict the area
- Oil, Collage & found objects on Paper
- Framed
- 42cm x 59cm
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Camping in the Beautiful Baja
These paintings were made while camping in Mexico's Baja Desert – this piece gives a sense of the colours at sunset.
- Oil & Collage on Paper
- Framed
- 20cm x 14cm
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If the Sky Falls (Hold up your hands)
I love this expression! It reminds me to always be hopeful. The found objects include sticks from an installation made with a great group of friends.
- Oil, Collage & found objects on Paper
- Framed
- 50cm x 50cm
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Autumn Leaves in Baja
The combined leave and paint cojure up the turn of season in the desert
- Oil, Collage & found objects on Paper
- Framed
- 38cm x 19cm
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Wrecked, Solitary, Here (A Study)
Inspired by the Emily Dickinson poem - this small piece is a study for a much larger diptych measuring 360cm X 120cm.
- Oil, Collage & found objects on Paper
- Framed
- 14cm x 20cm
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Cactus, Pine , Time
Found objects and paint combine to conjure up the elements and sensations of the Mexican Baja.
- Oil, Collage & found objects on Paper
- Framed
- 14cm x 20cm
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Waldo sends his Love
My friend Waldo is gifted at the dying art of letter writing – it is always wonderful to receive his correspondence – it never fails to cheer me. His envelopes always make an artistic statement that I love to preserve.
- Oil, Collage & found objects on Paper
- Framed
- 22cm x 19cm
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Waldo sends his Love – Part II
Receiving love from friends - by mail across the miles is so wonderful in this age of instant communication. I love preserving these wonderfully constructed correspondences with objects found in the landscape that I am in.
- Oil, Collage & found objects on Paper
- Framed
- 20cm x 14cm
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Going Home – A Strategy
When thoughts turned to leaving the Baja and going home – I began to think of ways to adapt the processes I had learned there upon my return to my practice in Ireland.
- Oil, Collage & found objects on Paper
- Framed
- 19cm x 17cm
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Into the Great Wide Open
When camping in the Baja desert I was sleeping beneath vast skies and the whole world seems to span out in front of you.
- Oil, Collage & found objects on Paper
- Framed
- 19cm x 10cm
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A Mexican Odyssey
Painted on return from Mexico – I limited myself to three pots of the primary colours – as I had done in the desert. This bigger work incorporates much of what I saw in the desert with my contemporary working practices. In recent times my work has become much larger in scale. I really enjoyed making this piece as it felt exciting and like a signpost setting me off in a new direction.
- Oil, Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
- 120cm x 100cm
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Tidal Treasure
This painting is a study of the shoreline in Baja at evening time.
- Oil & Acrylic on Paper
- 20cm x 14cm
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Ground Swell Baja
Another study of the shoreline – it sums up the wealth of colour to be seen in the suns reflecion.
- Oil & Mixed Media on paper
- 20cm x 14cm
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The Cactus that sat in the window (next to the arch)
The vegetation and plantlife in Mexico is enormously diverse – yet cactus are everywhere. This is from a photograph of the exterior of a house that suggested a still life.
- Oil, Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
- 20cm x 14cm
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After Yeats – In Mexico
Jack B Yeats was one of the earliest influences on my work – and it was envigorating to make a abstracted landscape based on the colours from the Mexican landscape.
- Oil on paper
- 20cm x 14cm
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Sunshine after Storms
I was fortunate to visit Mexico just after a hurricane. The storms continued sporadically during my stay – but were always followed by great blasts of sun. The impact of the rains on the vegetation was stunning – it seemed the landscape was growing with gusto before our eyes.
- Oil, Collage & found objects on Paper
- 19cm x 13cm
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Magic & Loss in Mexico
While in Mexico I listened alot to Lou Reed and his songs were instrumental in the making of some of these paintings.
- Oil, Collage & found objects on Paper
- 26cm x 19cm
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Bloom in Mexico
An abstracted landscape from my time in the Baja Desert – it evokes the sun and storms of the autumn season.
- Oil & mixed media on paper
- 20cm x 14cm
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Cora Murphy