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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 45cm x 35cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €745.00 I have been fortunate to undertake many artist residencies. It's a period of time - for me, it's been anything from a week to three months - most usually spent in solitude, contemplating new work quietly. The kind of time most parents would sell their teeth for! The quiet gets intense in the beginning - thoughts of being an utter fraud with a wasted life, devoid of any talent get noisy - and days and nights are long. I believe - wholeheartedly - if you are to make your own unique work, you must hear your own unique thoughts - warts and all - thus, there is nothing for it but to turn off your phone, walk in all weather and face forward the maelstrom of the mind. Slowly, fresh grounds of a new idea, germs of connectedness with nature shoot surely - and an enchantedness with the work begins again. Soon the silence that was solitary is now a balm - your thoughts and indeed your place on the earth seem to rhyme - or at least have a co-herence - a rhythm! It's then, in that super sweet spot, I have my best shots of inspiration - sometimes it seems a simple download, a hymn to the silence.
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SOLD OUT!While on residency at The Ballinglen Artists Foundation, I walked a lot on Lacken Strand. In 6-weeks I only ever met 2 other people on the lovely, long strand. During these walks, ideas would percolate - some good, some bad. It's hard to know in the solitude of a retreat if you're on the right track or veering off down (another) blind alley but the constancy of contemplation on these walks helped to refine the body of work that is 'The Big Sky' . Most times on these walks I would document those thoughts in a notebook and it is these ramblings - thoughts and tangents - that underpin this love letter to the world from Lacken. Oil on Canvas 45cm x 35cm in Slip Frame
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NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 100cm x 70cm SOLD Painted in a series of breathy layers, ‘A Second Coming – In Ciarraí’ was made while on residency in Cill Rialaig, in Kerry. It commemorates the life of a friend. My residency was in January when the world seemed slowly to begin again. From high up on Bolus Head during those short, moist days, I wondered how do we distinguish time and mark out days. Indeed, how do we capture the essence of a life – but in breaths. And so this painting was made slowly in lots of very loose layers. I wanted to paint like breath on glass – similar to the way weather, hovering between sea and sky, makes a ghostly impression over The Skelligs. The painting became a sum of it’s parts – lots of light layers which, when combined attempt to capture the essence of light and a life.
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SOLD OUT!I made this painting while on retreat in Kerry early last January. Being surrounded by sea, Ballinskelligs rarely see's snow, so it was a great pleasure to witness the smallest amount atop the boglands. Mixed media on board 40cm x 25cm SOLD
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm Ready to hang in slip frame This painting is another song of praise, an ode to the sea as it renews, invigorates and keeps us buoyant - leading us homewards.
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 40cm x 50cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €845.00
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NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
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A Turn For Grace
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Abstracting the Landscape
4 Week Online Painting Course
Going Live on the 19th of February 2023 (and every Sunday for 4 Weeks!)
Please note: Places are limited and sold on a first come, first served basis. This workshop teaches participants how to abstract elements of the landscape and create their own painterly response. Through a series of fun and stimulating exercises, you will learn how to approach painting in a fresh and creative manner while tapping into and developing your own intuitive painting style. What is included:- 4 x Weekly LIVE Online Painting Workshops with demos 11am - 1pm each Sunday.
- Exclusive ‘Behind the Scenes’ weekly footage of my own process.
- An extensive video library of recorded support classes such as photo-transfer technique, collage, glazing and texture.
- A private, supported Learning Hub group where participants can share work and questions.
- Comprehensive reading and resource list of books, audio and video learning materials.
- Downloadable Cheat-Sheets with top tips on how to start, edit and complete your own paintings
- Slide Show on specific areas of Art, Artists & their techniques and my sphere of influence.
- Access to recorded (and downloadable) LIVE class replays: Listen whenever, wherever and study at your own pace.
- Life-time access to all learning resources
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Abstracting the Landscape
4 Week Online Painting Course
Early Bird: €199*
*Expires 2nd Jan. 2023 - while stocks last. Full price €249.00.
Going Live on 19th February 2023 (and every Sunday for 4 Weeks!)
Please note: Places are limited and sold on a first come, first served basis. This workshop teaches participants how to abstract elements of the landscape and create their own painterly response. Through a series of fun and stimulating exercises, you will learn how to approach painting in a fresh and creative manner while tapping into and developing your own intuitive painting style. What is included:- 4 x Weekly LIVE Online Painting Workshops with demos 11am - 1pm each Sunday.
- Exclusive ‘Behind the Scenes’ weekly footage of my own process.
- An extensive video library of recorded support classes such as photo-transfer technique, collage, glazing and texture.
- A private, supported Learning Hub group where participants can share work and questions.
- Comprehensive reading and resource list of books, audio and video learning materials.
- Downloadable Cheat-Sheets with top tips on how to start, edit and complete your own paintings
- Slide Show on specific areas of Art, Artists & their techniques and my sphere of influence.
- Access to recorded (and downloadable) LIVE class replays: Listen whenever, wherever and study at your own pace.
- Life-time access to all learning resources
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13th - 14th October 2018 | Block T, Dublin
** SOLD OUT ** This workshop teaches participants how to abstract elements of the landscape and create their own painterly response. Through a series of fun and stimulating exercises, you will learn how to approach landscape painting in a fresh and creative manner while tapping into and developing your own intuitive painting style. Participants will take home 2-4 completed paintings, renewed confidence in their painting ability and lots of skills to help them begin, work through and complete great paintings. Comprehensive Follow-On notes will ensure you can hit the ground running when you return home. Who is it for: Open to absolute beginners and those with a little or a lot of painting experience - the only thing you really need for this class is an open mind and a willingness to have fun while painting. The aim of this workshop is to help participants make their own unique and atmospheric response to the landscape. Please note: A key aim of this workshop is to help painters to loosen their painting style. If you want to create a photo-realist likeness this is not the workshop for you. -
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7th - 8th November 2020 | Wexford
Please note: ** POSTPONED TO 7th - 8th November 2020** This workshop teaches participants how to abstract elements of the landscape and create their own painterly response. Through a series of fun and stimulating exercises, you will learn how to approach landscape painting in a fresh and creative manner while tapping into and developing your own intuitive painting style. Participants will take home 2-4 completed paintings, renewed confidence in their painting ability and lots of new skills to help them begin, work through and complete great paintings. Comprehensive Follow-On notes will ensure you can hit the ground running when you return home. Who is it for: Open to absolute beginners and those with a little or a lot of painting experience (in any medium!). The only thing you really need for this class is an open mind and a willingness to have fun while painting. What is included:- 2 days of intense painting tuition to help you create your own unique paintings in response to landscape.
- All materials including acrylic paints, inks, mixed media and a variety of mediums*
- 2 X great quality canvasses and all paper supports*
- All tools, brushes and palette knives* All you need to bring is yourself!
- Guided demo’s developed in response to your requirements
- Lots of 1-2-1 tuition and support structured to your specific needs
- Plenty of learning resources including an extensive library
- A great, yum, nutritious lunch
- Unlimited refreshments and snacks
- Comprehensive Follow-On notes filled with LOTS of online and offline resources and structured guidance on everything from colour management, to how to start and stop!
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4th - 5th April 2020 | Dublin
Please note: ** POSTPONED t0 2021** ** Fully booked ** please email: cora@coramurphy.com to join the wait list This workshop teaches participants how to abstract elements of the landscape and create their own painterly response. Through a series of fun and stimulating exercises, you will learn how to approach landscape painting in a fresh and creative manner while tapping into and developing your own intuitive painting style. Participants will take home 2-4 completed paintings, renewed confidence in their painting ability and lots of new skills to help them begin, work through and complete great paintings. Comprehensive Follow-On notes will ensure you can hit the ground running when you return home. Who is it for: Open to absolute beginners and those with a little or a lot of painting experience (in any medium!). The only thing you really need for this class is an open mind and a willingness to have fun while painting. What is included:- 2 days of intense painting tuition to help you create your own unique paintings in response to landscape.
- All materials including acrylic paints, inks, mixed media and a variety of mediums*
- 2 X great quality canvasses and all paper supports*
- All tools, brushes and palette knives* All you need to bring is yourself!
- Guided demo’s developed in response to your requirements
- Lots of 1-2-1 tuition and support structured to your specific needs
- Plenty of learning resources including an extensive library
- A great, yum, nutritious lunch
- Unlimited refreshments and snacks
- Comprehensive Follow-On notes filled with LOTS of online and offline resources and structured guidance on everything from colour management, to how to start and stop!
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Sligo - Postponed to July 2021
Please note: Places are limited. Bookings are on a first come, first served basis. This workshop teaches participants how to abstract elements of the landscape and create their own painterly response. Through a series of fun and stimulating exercises, you will learn how to approach landscape painting in a fresh and creative manner while tapping into and developing your own intuitive painting style. Participants will take home 2-4 completed paintings, renewed confidence in their painting ability and lots of new skills to help them begin, work through and complete great paintings. Comprehensive Follow-On notes will ensure you can hit the ground running when you return home. Who is it for: Open to absolute beginners and those with a little or a lot of painting experience (in any medium!). The only thing you really need for this class is an open mind and a willingness to have fun while painting. What is included:- 2 days of intense painting tuition to help you create your own unique paintings in response to landscape.
- All materials including acrylic paints, inks, mixed media and a variety of mediums*
- 2 X great quality canvasses and all paper supports*
- All tools, brushes and palette knives* All you need to bring is yourself!
- Guided demo’s developed in response to your requirements
- Lots of 1-2-1 tuition and support structured to your specific needs
- Plenty of learning resources including an extensive library
- A great, yum, nutritious lunch
- Unlimited refreshments and snacks
- Comprehensive Follow-On notes filled with LOTS of online and offline resources and structured guidance on everything from colour management, to how to start and stop!
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NOTE: All sizes quoted are image size, please add 4.5cm to all sides for the white border (9cm addition to width and height). Example: 52cm x 52cm (image) 61cm x 61cm (paper size)
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SOLD OUT!Oil on Canvas 20cm x 20cm SOLD - **Now Available In Limited Edition Print** HERE. From my ‘Land of Plenty’ collection, ‘Across the sea to the Skelligs’ was painted following a residency at Cill Rialaig in Kerry. Situated on Bolus Head – Ireland’s most south-westerly point, the residency is set in a famine village that looks out at the Skelligs – the early Christian monastic islands. The rugged sea seemed to span a mystical journey of centuries and yet I felt connected by instinct and some sort of magic thread to this ancient other world.
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 46cm x 36cm In slip frame ready to hang Memory plays a huge part in my work. Recalling time and place sensations in all its subjectivity is very much part of the push-pull and play of reconstructing memories. After Nephin was painted following my recent fishing trip with my Dad – it was a glorious time in a wonderful place. Unforgettable really. Yet when I come to paint it – I think mostly of sensations. Weather rolling in, the boat setting off from the shore and rolling out across the lapping lake. The mountains are there - and the moody sky and water - but I think what I am trying to capture is that precious time which feels like water in our hands.
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 50cm x 40cm In slip frame, ready to hang. €845.00
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SOLD OUT!Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm SOLD
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Since time began, or since I started printing Art Cards, I always created mixed boxes of Art Cards i.e. a combination of square and rectangle shaped cards. Having carried out some research it seems LOTS of you wanted a set of square cards and so I am DELIGHTED to launch my New Art Card Collection Gift Pack. From the classics to my most recent paintings, this brand new collection brings together 10 of your favorite Paintings in one Art Card Gift . All 10 cards are square (145mm sq). Blank for your own message they come with 10 envelopes. Each card is of the highest quality print and illustrates a contemporary landscape painting from my collected body of work. I have included the story of how the painting came to being –on the reverse of each card - for you and your recipients to enjoy. All cards are blank on the inside for your own message and are suitable for every sentiment. Highly finished and presented with matching envelopes, each Gift Pack can be personalized with a note (please just let me know your preferred greeting in the ‘Order Notes’ section in the final stages of the checkout!). As with all my product, cards can be Shipped Worldwide. Thank you for your support! Contemporary Landscapes from Ireland Art Postcard Gift Box €25 - that's 10 cards for €20.00 (RRP €2.95 each). Postage & packaging: €3.95 in Ireland and €5.95 worldwide
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