Carolyn Murphy - Printmaker

Manchester-based Artist Printmaker Carolyn Murphy's blog about printmaking, with tips, work in progress images and sources of inspiration.

Sunday, 15 October 2023

Making Dry Stone Walling for Hendon & Holborn

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For my penultimate MA exhibition, I decided to return to dry stone walling and revisit and refine 'A World We Share?', a piece first...
Friday, 29 September 2023

Making 'Below the Pike', my RA Summer Exhibition 2023 print

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Since August 2022, I've been experimenting with textured, colourful collagraph techniques to create semi-abstracted landscapes. One of t...
Monday, 4 April 2022

The Making of 'Staying Local' for TAE22

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This year I have been a volunteer blogger for Twitter Art Exhibit (TAE), writing about other artists and their work whenever I've had th...
Thursday, 24 March 2022

Becoming a Middlesex University MA student

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As of January 2022, I'm a student again! I hadn't really expected that, at this stage in my life, but it feels just right and I am a...
Friday, 15 October 2021

Behind the Scenes on 'September Evening'

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For this year's 20:20 print exchange I decided to capture a familiar and favourite view. It's one I've seen a lot of during rece...
Saturday, 2 October 2021

Making 'Crosby Beach' linocut

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This linocut started a while ago with a visit to Crosby Beach to see Antony Gormley's 'Another Place' sculpture installation, 10...
Thursday, 5 August 2021

Grayson Perry's Art Club exhibition

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Grayson Perry's Art Club exhibition eventually opened, after various lockdown delays, at Manchester Art Gallery - and it was great to ge...
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Carolyn Murphy
I'm an artist and printmaker based in Manchester, UK - www.carolynmurphy.co.uk Currently a part-time MA Fine Art Printmaking student at Middlesex University. I'm a member of the Printmakers Council and Hot Bed Press print workshop, in Salford. I regularly print at Prospect Studios in Rossendale.
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