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Martin 🇨🇦
@canadianartist.bsky.social
Artist 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦
www.martinmurphyart.com
Painter of figures. Previous visual effects artist (ILM 16.5 years), previous professional dancer.
Hello Bluesky art enthusiasts! Just posting my latest painting ‘Memnon’, 60” x 36”, 152.4cm x 91.4cm, oil on wood panel.

Memnon is the 7th in my series of contemporary mythological portraits including Pan, Medusa, Perseus, Hermes, Aphrodite and Poseidon.

#canadianartist #portraitpainting
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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September 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hello Blue Sky’ers, I thought I would post my latest painting ‘Aphrodite’. One in a series of mythological portraits I’ve been working on including Medusa, Hermes, Poseidon, and Pan.

Aphrodite
Oil on cradled wood panel
60” x 30”, 152.4 cm x 76.2 cm

Insta: martinmurphyart
www.martinmurphyart.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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🚨🇨🇦HAPPY CANADA DAY🇨🇦🚨

🇨🇦Happy Canada Day everyone🇨🇦

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER 🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
July 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A bit of promotion for my art show ‘The Romantics’ for the month of June in Toronto.

Opening Reception May 31st

The Elaine Fleck Gallery
1351 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON Canada
May 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
My latest painting.
‘Sleeping Soldier’
72”x48”, oil on canvas.
My upcoming show ‘The Romantics’opening May 31st at The Elaine Fleck Gallery in Toronto.
May 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
A painting of mine from a few years ago. This beautiful old clock my mother has had since I was a kid with some of her other items from around her house.

Nine Thirty Two, 2021
Oil on canvas
48”x48”, 122 x 122 cm
May 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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April 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Hello art enthusiasts. Here’s a painting of mine from 2024. Tempest Muse, 48”x48”, oil on wood panel. Available from the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto. www.elainefleckgallery.com

You can see more of my work at www.martinmurphyart.com

#art #painting #canadianartist #canadianart #canadianpainter
April 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A recent completed painting of mine. Oil on canvas, 59”x26”. It’s one of two companion paintings for a commission. You can see more of my work at www.martinmurphyart.com

#portrait #figureativepainting #realism #oilpainting
April 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A painting of mine from 2023. Third in a series of koi and figure interaction pieces. It’s called The Awakening, oil on canvas, 48” x 30” and is available.
March 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
March 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A painting of mine called ‘Floating Falling’. Oil on canvas, 48” x 30”. It’s available from The Elaine Fleck Gallery in Toronto, 416 469 8005.
February 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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February 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hello BlueSkyers, here’s a painting of mine from 2023 called The Landscaper. Oil on canvas, 72”x36”. It’s available from The Elaine Fleck Gallery in Toronto, 416 469 8005.
February 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Hello BlueSkyers. Here’s my latest painting. It’s the last in a series of 4 contemporary mythological portraits after Medusa, Hermes and Poseidon.
Pan. Oil on canvas. 60”x40”
February 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man."
- Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC
February 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
What is this American Conservative obsession with trans people? I don’t get it. Just leave them the fu*k alone already and let them live their lives!
January 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Canada has been named among the top 5 countries with the most freedom.

The United States ranked 59th.
Canada named among countries with the most freedom
According to a new report by Freedom House, Canada has been named among the top countries in the world with the most freedom.
cultmtl.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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This!
December 30, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Humm, this seems about right.
December 27, 2024 at 1:51 AM
The swans of Swan Lake in Markham, Ontario, Canada.
December 11, 2024 at 9:56 PM