I'm an Irish painter based in Ireland, and I'm inspired by the things artists are usually interested in, like pretty girls, landscapes and burnt out cars. I recently began my professional career in 2006, and the driving theme behind my work has always been the human condition. I incorporate influences into my work such as personal experience, existential theories on the human condition and existence, Nietzsche's writings on the "Superman", comics, religious parables, symbolism, the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the songs of John Spillane and the artwork of John Shinnors, Conor Harrington and Mark O'Kelly, then I mash it all up and reinterpret it all through the medium of oil paint.

Stephen Murphy