Tuesday 23 September 2014
Paintings by Elainy Irish
Biography: Elaine Murphy is an Irish artist and designer who is currently based in beautiful Naples, Florida. She was born in Dublin. : her father Mike, was a television hosts, and her mother Eileen was a fashion model.
Elaine studied fine art at the National College of Art and Design Dublin.
She also got training as a fashion illustrator.
She worked in London for the renowned fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, while illustrating and designing for several women's high fashion magazines, including “Image”, “Woman's Way” and “U”.
Elaine moved to Palm Desert, California in 2000 and focused on her fine art large format figurative and abstract paintings. A collector once described her painting style as “loose and fluid, with emotional overtones conveyed by elegant lines.The combination of abstraction and bold figurative lines conspires to make her expressions on canvas truly unique”. Her paintings now hang in many private U.S, international and celebrity collections.
