Suzy Murphy
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Suzy MurphyMy Shooting Star, 2025Oil paint and mono ink on paper.
Signed in pencil.138 x 110 cm (54 3/8 x 43 1/4 in) -
Suzy MurphyPurple Waves I, 2022Oil paint and mono ink on paper.
Signed in pencil.138 x 110 cm (54 3/8 x 43 1/4 in) -
Suzy MurphyHarvest Moon, 2025Oil paint and mono ink on paper.
Signed in pencil.138 x 110 cm (54 3/8 x 43 1/4 in)
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Suzy MurphySpirit of My Place, 2023Monoprint with hand painting in oil
Signed verso138 x 110 cm (54 3/8 x 43 1/4 in) -
Suzy MurphyFalling II, 2023Monoprint with hand painting in oil.
Signed in pencil.75.5 x 56.5 cm (29.7 x 22.2 in) -
Suzy MurphyEmerald Leaves, 2022Oil paint and mono ink on paper.
Signed in pencil.72 x 56 cm (28 3/8 x 22 1/8 in) -
Suzy MurphySpring I, 2023Oil paint and mono ink on paper
Signed in pencil75.5 x 56.5 cm (29.7 x 22.2 in)
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Suzy MurphyAspen Leaves (study), 2025Oil paint and mono ink on paper.
Signed in pencil.75.5 x 56.5 cm (29.7 x 22.2 in) -
Suzy MurphyThe Lake House, 2025Oil paint and mono ink on paper.
Signed in pencil.75.5 x 56.5 cm (29.7 x 22.2 in) -
Suzy MurphyBlue, 2025Oil paint and mono ink on paper.
Signed in pencil.75.5 x 56.5 cm (29.7 x 22.2 in) -
Suzy MurphyRed Farm House, 2025Oil paint and mono ink on paper.
Signed in pencil.75.5 x 56.5 cm (29.7 x 22.2 in)
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Suzy MurphyOne Flower, 2023Oil on board
Signed verso25 x 20 cm (10 x 8 in) -
Suzy MurphyTill The Morning Appears In The Sky, 2025Oil on board.
Signed verso.25 x 20 cm (10 x 8 in) -
Suzy MurphyThe Starry Pole, 2025Oil on board.
Signed verso.25 x 20 cm (10 x 8 in) -
Suzy MurphySong of the Lake III, 2023Oil on board
Signed verso25 x 20 cm (10 x 8 in)
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BiographyVast, deserted, majestic landscape with only the smallest hint of a human presence, such as an isolated cabin, are recurrent themes in Suzy Murphy’s work. Her images are not just visual representations of observed landscapes, they are also im-bued with a profoundly personal dialogue. Deeply autobiographical, her paintings are better understood as a form of self-portraiture.
Born in London’s East End in 1964, Suzy Murphy moved to Alberta, Canada at the age of five. The shift from a small tenement apartment, where she lived with her large Irish family, to the vast open landscapes of North America, brought an enormous emotional shift. This experience became the creative catalyst that informs the tranquillity and magical realism of her work.
Suzy Murphy’s love of landscapes has remained and she continues to travel extensively on annual road trips from the monumental scenery of the Rocky Mountains, to the lakes of Austria. Her diarised sketches record her trips and these small, spontaneous images become the basis for her paintings. The narrative of her life is the subconscious thread that runs throughout her work and continues to quietly but surely present itself.
Recently, Murphy returns to landscapes that hold emotional significance from her past, whilst also referring to the English countryside, conscious of Blake’s England which has always been present in her life and studio. The paintings that arose from the study of his poems are not always direct references but an accumulation of feeling around the subject matter of innocence and experience, of light and dark, and her personal journey through the reading of Blake.
Suzy Murphy is an alumna of St Martin’s School of Art, London in 1982. Her work is held in many important public and private collections worldwide. Suzy Murphy continues to live and work in London, England. -
Exhibitions
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Nocturnes
Group Show | 20 Bourdon Street 23 Jan - 21 Mar 2025Nocturnes brings together a group of artists who examine the experience, character and subject matter of night time. The show encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Ideas of sleep, nocturnal...Read more -
Paint and Plates
Suzy Murphy | 20 Bourdon Street 9 - 25 May 2023Paint and Plates exhibited a group of newly made plates and one new painting by London painter Suzy Murphy. Murphy took a short sabbatical from her painting practice to make...Read more -
Suzy Murphy
Of Dark and Light | 20 Bourdon Street 16 Nov - 23 Dec 2022We were pleased to present this exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by British artist Suzy Murphy. This show coincided with Suzy Murphy's commission of The Connaught Christmas...Read more -
Nature Observed
Group Show | 20 Bourdon Street 10 - 30 Jun 2020A group show celebrating the abundance of summer and the keenly observed natural world. This exhibition includes prints and works on paper, all concerned with the careful observation of nature....Read more
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Virtual Exhibition: Harbour Island
Suzy Murphy | 20 Bourdon Street 11 - 22 May 2020A selection of new paintings and monoprints by Suzy Murphy made during her travels to the Bahamian retreat, Harbour Island. The works alternately convey senses of peace and isolation, remoteness,...Read more -
I Won't Look Away
Suzy Murphy | 20 Bourdon Street 15 Nov - 20 Dec 2019The gallery’s first exhibition with British artist Suzy Murphy, including new oil paintings and hand-painted monoprints. Murphy has painted her entire life and many of her subjects relate to small,...Read more
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Art fairs
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The Armory Show
4 - 7 Sep 2025Lyndsey Ingram returns to The Armory Show with a thoughtfully curated presentation highlighting six contemporary female artists from the gallery’s roster. United by a shared...Read more -
London Original Print Fair 2024
The Shop at Lyndsey Ingram 21 - 24 Mar 2024Lyndsey Ingram is delighted to return to the London Original Print Fair 2024, with The Shop at Lyndsey Ingram. The gallery has created a miniature...Read more -
Untitled Miami 2023
Suzy Murphy 5 - 10 Dec 2023Lyndsey Ingram is pleased to present a solo presentation of new work by British female artist Suzy Murphy. Murphy describes her work as emotional landscapes,...Read more -
London Craft Week 2023
Suzy Murphy and Richard Pomeroy 8 - 14 May 2023Lyndsey Ingram presented two exhibitions focusing on ceramics by British artists. The first show was a group of newly-made plates by London painter Suzy Murphy....Read more
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The Armory Show
9 - 11 Sep 2022Lyndsey Ingram will be exhibiting paintings, prints and sculptures by three contemporary British female artists, all of whom are represented by the gallery - Kate...Read more -
London Original Print Fair 2022
26 - 29 May 2022London Original Print Fair Royal Academy of Arts Burlington House London W1J 0BDRead more -
UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020
17 - 19 Jan 2020In 2020 Lyndsey Ingram Gallery showed a selection of works at UNTITLED, ART in San Francisco. The gallery is pleased to be exhibiting at UNTITLED San Francisco for the first time. The presentation will include graphic work by artists for whom California held importance, whether by way of a dynamic creative environment, their place of birth, or as a source of subject matter for their work.Read more -
London Original Print Fair 2019
25 - 28 Apr 2019In 2019 Lyndsey Ingram Gallery showed a selection of works at London Original Print Fair, London's longest-running art fair held at the Royal Academy of Arts.Read more
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E/AB Fair 2018
25 - 28 Oct 2018In 2018, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery showed a selection of works at E/AB Fair. Editions / Artists' Book Fair (E/AB Fair) is New York's premier showcase for the discovery of new and contemporary prints, multiples, and artists' books.Read more -
London Original Print Fair 2018
3 - 6 May 2018In 2018 Lyndsey Ingram Gallery showed a selection of works at London Original Print Fair, London's longest-running art fair held at the Royal Academy of Arts.Read more
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Press
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From Art to Finish
Grace McCloud, House and Garden, October 1, 2025 -
Artist Suzy Murphy captures ‘emotional landscapes’ in Aspen exhibition
Kaya Williams, Aspen Public Radio, February 19, 2024 -
British artist brings love of the American West to Aspen’s Galerie Maximillian
Sarah Girgis, Aspen Times, February 9, 2024 -
Sunday Independent | Suzy Murphy
Sarah Caden, Sunday Independent, January 15, 2023
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FINANCIAL TIMES | SUZY MURPHY'S BEAUTIFUL MYTHOLOGY
Victoria Woodcock, Financial Times, November 18, 2022 -
Suzy Murphy – Harbour Island
Vanity Fair Art, June 15, 2020 -
How do small and medium art galleries survive?
Financial Times China, April 16, 2020 -
Arts impresario and entrepreneur Sally Greene on the Left Bank and the dynamic art of Suzy Murphy
Emma O’Kelly, Financial Times, February 12, 2019
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Publications
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EAB Fair
Georgie Hopton | Suzy Murphy | Kelly Reemtsen 2018Digital catalogueRead more -
Suzy Murphy
Harbour Island 2020 Text by David Flint WoodDigital catalogueRead more -
Suzy Murphy
I Won't Look Away 2019 Text by Rachel Campbell-JohnstonSoftback, 90 pagesRead more
Publisher: Lyndsey Ingram
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Suzy Murphy
Monoprints 2018Digital catalogueRead more
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