anita murphy

I’ve been back in England for the past 4 months and have discovered a new passion.  Painting ceramics.  I lurched into Christmas baubles and found that they were extremely well received and from that I have decided to give painted ceramics a go, alongside my paintings. I started with doing just a couple of dozen…

I’m quite enjoying flipping between different mediums and styles and am finding that it stops me from over thinking process on more “serious’ pieces. Another in the series of moonlit illustrations.  I love the shape of hares as they run, from the stretched out animal to the moment it takes the next racing step.  

Sometimes its not a struggle.  It feels like it is all just happening when it is supposed to and without any effort at all.  And its bliss when it does.  It happened with this painting and I look at it now and wondered if I painted it!  I loved the way it came together and…

One of the things I struggle with is style.  Are we tied to a style that we produce naturally or can we push ourselves to become something else?  I love loose splashy, abstracted paintings but I always seem to end up with tiny brushes in my hand adding detail.  Watercolour is allowing me to push…

I’ve been absent again – but I have at least been busy! I have recently signed up with RedBubble and opened an account to sell prints, bags, cushions, phone covers and more. So taking a slightly different track, I have been working on a series of work that will lend itself well to different items…

My fabric series has rather gone by the way of knots! Knots look so different according to what they are tied with – the knotted ribbon is much flatter and more structural somehow, yet the knotted tea towel is drapes and curves due to the bulk of the fabric. “Tie the Knot” Pencil on Paper…

Following on from the pebbles drawing, I have started a series of drawings of fabrics. I bought this black and white silk many years ago but have never use it for anything. It seemed like the perfect challenge for this series of drawings, though half-way through the first one, I began to wonder whether I…

I love to walk on beaches and find myself picking up rocks and bringing them home by the pocket full. Attracted by the texture, the shape, colour or patterns, I find them irresistable!. “Memories” Pencil on Paper “Instrospective” Pencil on Paper “Hopes” Pencil on Paper “Reflection” Pencil on paper “Musings” Pencil on paper “Moments” Pencil…

Many people believe that being an artist is easy. That you get up in the morning and paint. I hate to dispel this theory, because yes, there are days like that. But there are many that are agony, the agony of wanting to paint and not knowing what to paint and sometimes, not even wanting…