Collection: Ciara Murray

Ciara Murray is a painter whose work explores imagination, beauty, and the quiet calming impact that abstract art can have on a person. Using a mixture of acrylic and oils on canvas, she creates paintings that capture the attention through a range of bright colours yet are understated, blending into any environment, while forcing viewers to interpret the scene by delving into their

imagination. Ciara’s abstract scenes exist somewhere between nature, dreams and the simplicity of colour, drawn not only from life but also from memory, feeling, and the beauty of everyone’s unique imagination.

The surface of these paintings contains a dynamic range of textures which subtly add to the tension of the paintings, a result of Ciara’s wave technique. The effect is both extreme and soft, like our imaginations which we forget to use and delve into as we grow older. In Gold Ocean, she captures the emotional connection with viewing the ocean in different weather, a visual impression based on turbulent times we face in life and emotions deep inside. The title speaks to the light we pick out in life even through very hard and rough times, something that we can all call to mind and resonate with.

Ciara aims to give an injection of colour into lives. An entrance into the simplicity of colour and its effect on our emotions. The hope is to lead the viewer in through the door of their imagination, which is often closed. Giving the viewer a brief escape from reality and a release of endorphins simply by daydreaming into one of these paintings. A treat for the senses, visually by colour but also tactile by touching the texture on the paintings if desired..

Ciara Murray is an Irish artist living in Naas, County Kildare. A graduate from the school of design TU Dublin (formally DIT). Her work centres on the imagination, exploring themes of colour, nature, emotion, and the world between presence and dream. Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, Ciara employs intense, synthetic colour and flow, unusual compositions to create paintings that are emotionally charged yet quietly restrained.