Part 7 of an interview series in which I invite artists to respond to six questions about art, process, and creativity. Today's artist is John Murphy , who lives just outside Madrid in Spain. "Heads," 2011 Philip Hartigan: What medium/media do you chiefly use, and why? John Murphy : I spent many years making a kind of 'process painting' based on a very limited set of actions but now all my work created digitally. Most of my pieces are composed of two parts. One part starts with paint on paper which then gets scanned into the computer and combined with vector/digital elements in photoshop and/or corel painter. I now work this way because the marriage of the hand made painted elements with the digital really excites me. PH: What piece are you currently working on? JM : I am working on some Illustrations for a festival in Cork, Ireland and I am also in the middle of a new series of silhouettes. "Silhouettes," 2012 PH: What ...
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