Patrick Murphy

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Irish Artist, Patrick J Murphy (aged 49), studied Art and Art History at the Belfast Institute of Higher Education.

His early work took the form of traditional landscape and portrait painting, which he exhibited and sold widely,

before finally finding his own unique artistic voice.

The new millennium began with a major exhibition at the Agora Gallery on Broadway in New York. Patrick is

currently showing at the Karen Taylor Contemporary Art Gallery, England, and the ArtPic Gallery in Hollywood, California, U.S.A.

 Emotion is often a very important component of artistic expression. Some artists allow emotion to colour their work, while others purposefully imbue their work with an unmistakable force of emotion.

 Irish artist Patrick J Murphy, on the other hand, paints emotion, pure and simple. It is not the motivator, nor the energiser of subject ~ it is the subject itself.

In his contemporary works of art, Patrick J Murphy uses the medium of oil paint to present to the viewer the quintessential moment of human affections, passions and pains of our existence.

Through line, colour and juxtaposition of elements, Belfast artist Patrick J Murphy is able to accomplish his simple yet profound goal; to evoke with beauty, sensitivity and power, an honest and empathetic response to his work, through a visual language that is comprehensible to all his viewers.