ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY DOMINIC MURPHY
PORTRAIT OF MY DAUGHTER JESSIE WITH ALLUSIONS TO ALICE (LEWIS CARROLL), MYTHOLOGY AND SYMBOLS RELATED TO HER PERSONAL IDIOSYNCRASIES.
I wanted to share with you a single item of artwork by Dominic Murphy aka Homelyvillain. I first fell upon Dominic's work on Ebay where he sells watercolours inspired by Alice in Wonderland and pictures of Bull Terriers I imagine inspired by his own canines. At the time, I was searching for pictures of Hares - the Lepus europaeus variety and not the angling variety which cropped up in quantity during my search. Call it serendipity but a wonderful watercolour of a White Hare appeared created by Dominic which I was able to procure and from then on I've succumbed to a couple of deadly sins namely avarice and visual gluttony in building up my own personal gallery of Dominic's artworks. Here is a link to his site www.dominicmurphyart.com/
To visit his site is to walk alongside the dark miasmic canals of baroque Venice or to melt into a dank wall to evade London footpads. Allusions to Hieronymous Bosch, Dali, The Inquisition, high Gothic and high Church, tongue in cheek wordplay. Allusions all! Dominic is an artist in his own category but paints in several categories - Catholic tastes abound. Take a walk on the dark side - your responses may veer from abhorrence, astonishment, empathy, laughter, admiration and a spot of covetousness. What matters is that he will evoke a response.
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