Anthony Murphy

Born in Buenos Aires in 1956 and educated at Westminster School, London, Anthony’s first flourish in the arts saw him win an Emmy in 1973 for Best Actor in Tom Brown’s Schooldays. After which he went to study Philosophy, Psychology and Physiology at Oxford and later the letter of the law.
 
Called to the Bar in 1984, he practiced in both London and Paris. In 1990 Anthony gave up law and began his quest for sanctuary. 
 
He arrived in Clifden, a place he visited many times in his youth, to live with his uncle Richard Murphy, poet, at the home of his ancestors. Since moving to France in 1992, Anthony has exhibited his work from Chelsea to San Francisco.
 
The works in this exhibition reveal his desire for the light and colours of his home in Carcassonne and his passion for the Irish landscape. From the mauve twilight of spring with its faint hint of rain in the air to the gathering of turf for winter fires, the artist, revealed in the confident strokes of his paintings, shows us the moving narrative of life.

New works on view now