A conversation with Matt Murphy, an English portrait painter currently practicing in Brighton, England. After a childhood fascination with art, and graduating A-Levels, Murphy took a long-term hiatus from his practice. While living in Vietnam, marooned by the Covid Pandemic, Murphy began working with the regionally popular media, water colors. This new media inspired a different process, which carried onto Murphy’s work with oils. Red and gazing, Murphy’s subjects appear through the flowing, loose marks.        

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