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Peter's Interests
General
The Arts, painting and painters,particularly Stuckism and Stuckists.Music and music makers.Good food, good wine, good company.Italy and Italian food.Music and dogs.
Music
Beatles, Bowie,Roxy Music,Stones,the delightful Kate Bush, Dylan,Tamla Motown, Hendrix, Elvis,Free, T Rex,Seventies Funk,Punk Rock, especially Ramones, Jam and Clash, U2,Van the Man,Marley,Iggy,Al Green, Marvyn Gay, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder,Blur, Oasis,Arctic Monkeys,The Smiths,Billy Childish,
Movies
Zulu, Bladerunner, Matrix,Star Wars,Anchor Man, The Producers, Anything by Mel Brooks,Marx Brothers Movies,This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind,War Films in General, Cary Grant films, it's a Wonderful Life.
Television
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Books
The Mystical Theology of The Eastern Church, Vladimir Lossky.The Meaning of Icons,Vladimir Lossky and Leonid Ouspensky.The Technique of Icon Painting, Guillem Ramos Poqui.Il Libro Dell Arte, Cennino Cennini.The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo.The Name of The Rose,Umberto Eco.Count Belisarius, Robert Graves.Hypatia, Charles Kingsley.The Onion Eaters, J P Donleavy.Julian, Gore Vidal.The list will go on for ever so I will stop now and come back later.
Peter Murphy
Born 1959 in Leeds, moved to Liverpool and later Durham. Educated at Jacob Kramer College of Art and the University of East London. Trained with iconographer Guillem Ramos Poqui in London.
Murphy uses traditional techniques from medieval religious painting, including egg tempera paint and gold leaf. He was Vice Chairman of the Society of Tempera Painters and is a member of The British Association of Iconographers, he runs courses in the UK, Greece and Italy teaching these techniques. He has been commissioned by a number of churches in the UK, notably Tewkesbury Abbey and Hereford Cathedral. He has also been employed by a number of museums for special exhibitions, he has recreated a triptych by Simone Martini for The Barber Institute of Fine Arts and created a mural of ten scenes from the life of Benedict Biscop for Bede's World Museum in Jarrow.
He was one of a team on a Rolf Harris TV show which recreated a Botticelli painting in a week. As well as traditional religious subject matter, he has used the same techniques to create a series of striking iconic depictions of his musical heroes, including Elvis, Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon.
He formed a Broadstairs Stuckist group in 2005 and has exibited with the group on several occassions since.
He has just completed a major new commission for Hereford Cathedral, which was installed in June of 2007.
Who I'd like to meet:
Anybody interesting.People with good taste and money to spend on art
hey just googled it and yes it was the viande and there is a pic of my rear in one of the photos! pink top brown dress and boots!! well i never. anyway nice to "meet you".
thanks very much for add. saw your jimmy hendrix icon at a stuckist exhibition in east london a year or so back. it was for me the stand out piece. great to find you on here.
Hi Peter, thank you for accepting my invitation. I have seen your work somewhere else and remember thinking how fantastic it is. You've got some mad skills :)
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right (3x)
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait / Don't you know...
You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You'd better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow / Don't you know...
All right, all right...
