Elaine Murphy

Elaine Murphy is an internationally collected artist. She is an Irish artist who lives in Naples, Florida.
At the age of four in in Dublin, Elaine"s grandfather asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she replied "an artist". Art is, and always has been, her passion.
She performed as a high fashion model in her late teens before returning to her true passion, her art.
She worked in London for the famous fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, while illustrating for various fashion magazines in Dublin and London, including "Image", "It", "Womans way" and "U'.
Elaine had her first exhibition at age in Dublin, Ireland in 1988, at age 21. The theme was a 1960s inspired series of handpainted art plates.
Over the past thirty years, Elaine has expanded her creative pursuits fashion to to jewelry design to abstract and figurative art.
She also founded her own factory devoted to her ceramic and home accessory designs in Guadalajara, Mexico.
She has also designed for a number of leading brands, including Waterford Crystal.
Elaine moved to Palm Desert, california in 2000, where she had the opportunity to work with the contemporary abstract artist Gerome Gastaldi. She then focused on her fine art large format figurative ...

1983 National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland.
1986 Grafton Academy, Dublin, Ireland.
(Fashion illustration).

2020
Emillions Art,
Fifth Avenue,
Naples, Florida

2017 - 2019
Elaine Murphy Art Gallery
Naples Art District

2016
Casanova Art,
Naples, Florida

2014
Galerie Du Soleil,
Broad Avenue,
Naples, Florida

2013
Nuance Gallery,
St. Petersburg, Florida

2012
Baterbys Art Gallery,
Orlando, Florida

2011
ODA Art Center,
Sarasota, Florida

2010
Art and Antique Center,
Sarasota, Florida

2008
Art International,
Nassau, Bahamas

2005
Art Expo,
New York,

2004
Wentworth Gallery,
Los Angeles, California

2003
Wentworth Gallery,
Laguna Beach, California

2002
National Art Fair,
Dublin, Ireland

2001
Larry Scwhartz Gallery,
Los Angeles, California