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Canvas to Painting
This video (click on the image to play video) shows 3 of the paintings I was working on in December on the canvases I made at York St Johns.  show more
Marie Murphy
1 month ago
New Work - Untitled 2022
In my last post you will have seen that I learned to strech my own canvas. Once I primed my canvases I was able to get to work on some new painting for my Untitled Series. This series of work encapsulates my love of contemporary architecture and the wild landscape that you can often find in urban environments.   Acrylic...  show more
Marie Murphy
1 month ago
Canvas Making
I took the oppertunity to learn to make my own canvas at York St Johns in the last couple of weeks. After an introuduction to the equipment I needed to use, it was an easy and pleasurable process. The Miter machine reminded me of a Pac Man taking little trianglar chunks out of the wood with every move of the...  show more
Marie Murphy
1 month ago
Carving London Plane
As a painter and Illustrator, I wanted to translate my work into other mediums that I felt would be sympathetic to the subject matter - contemporary urban landscape. One of my proposed objectives was to use wood. I have a surplus of London Plane wood left over from our kitchen build and felt this would be ideal. The easier and...  show more
Marie Murphy
2 months ago

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