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Postcard for Twitter Art Exhibit 2022

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Carolyn Murphy is donating a postcard-sized original artwork to this year’s Twitter Art Exhibit in York. A regular contributor to TAE, Carolyn created an etching for the 2022 charity art sale. ‘Staying local’ is hand-coloured with watercolours and it’s based on a sketch she made during the lockdowns last year. The work shows a scene on her doorstep and holds onto the small patches of nature in the urban environment.

‘Staying local’, an original etching by Carolyn Murphy

‘Staying local’ and over a thousand other artworks will go on sale at the charity art sale on Saturday 25 June, and online, in aid of the Encephalitis Society. To find out more about Twitter Art Exhibit, check out them out on Twitter @twitartexhibit or via the Twitter Art Exhibit website. This year, Carolyn has contributed blog posts as one of the volunteer official Twitter Art Exhibit bloggers. You can see posts from Carolyn and others here.

Image of Carolyn Murphy's original postcard 'Above Ullswater'

Twitter Art Exhibition 2019 Board’s Choice

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Carolyn Murphy’s original linocut ‘Above Ullswater’ was chosen as a Board’s Choice in the 2019 Twitter Art Exhibition. Back in 2017, artist and printmaker Carolyn Murphy took part in the online Twitter Art Exhibition and was soon hooked. Every year since then, she has donated a one-off postcard-sized piece of original art to a great cause. She has enjoyed seeing other artists’ work from all around the globe on Twitter.

‘Above Ullswater’ a linocut by Carolyn Murphy

Her 2019 contribution, ‘Above Ullswater’, is a one plate linocut on a mono-printed background. It captures a fairly wild and barren fell landscape, high above Ullswater in the Lake District.

Carolyn was delighted to find out that her work was selected by David Sandum, the founder of the Twitter Art Exhibition, as a Board’s Choice in this year’s catalogue of the exhibition.

The Board’s Choice entry in the 2019 exhibition catalogue

To see the development of this work and a video snippet showing the catalogue, check out Carolyn’s blog post.

Image of a woman viewing artist Carolyn Murphy's monoprint 'Hidden Depths' at Warrington Contemporary Open 2017

Warrington Contemporary now Open

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Carolyn Murphy’s monoprint ‘Hidden Depths’ is on display at the Warrington Contemporary Open Exhibition at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, as part of the Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival 2017.  The exhibition runs until 28 October and all work is for sale.

The photograph below was taken at the Exhibition Opening on 29 September, by photographer Phil Portus who is exhibiting in The Photography Open at The Gallery at Bank Quay House.

Image of a woman viewing artist Carolyn Murphy's monoprint 'Hidden Depths' at Warrington Contemporary Open 2017
Carolyn Murphy’s monoprint ‘Hidden Depths’ on display at Warrington Contemporary Open

This is the 7th Warrington Contemporary Open Exhibition. A selection of around 40 works by local and regional artists is on show. Works were selected by a panel of judges, including Paulette Terry Brien, director of The International 3, an exhibition and project space in Salford, and artist Louise Giovanelli.

Unframed work is for sale on-line via the new Shop on this website.

Image of gecko linocut 'Sticky Feet' by Carolyn Murphy in the Twitter Art Exhibition 2017

Gecko linocut in charity sale

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Carolyn Murphy’s gecko linocut is now in Stratford-on-Avon at the Twitter Art Exhibition 2017, to help raise money for children’s charity Molly Olly’s Wishes. This year’s charity art sale on Saturday 1 April sees artwork from over 1000 artists from all over the world go on sale. Each artist contributed a one-off original postcard-sized piece of artwork to the exhibition and sale.

This is the first time that Carolyn has taken part in the Twitter Art Exhibition. Her two-plate reduction linocut of a gecko and butterflies, called ‘Sticky Feet’ sold on the opening night. For more ‘behind the scenes’ images and information on the complex process with stage images, see Carolyn’s blog

For unframed prints, please check out the website Shop.

Image of gecko linocut 'Sticky Feet' by Carolyn Murphy in the Twitter Art Exhibition 2017
Gecko linocut ‘Sticky Feet’ by Carolyn Murphy #TAE17