‘The Cloths of Heaven’. Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B.Yeats. 'Irises' Pastel on card . 32 x 48 cm 2
Nicholas Bowlby requests the pleasure of your company at the Private View of
'Tread Softly' an exhibition of New Pastels by
Anthony Murphy in the presence of the artist on Tuesday 7th October 6pm at The Studio 73 Glebe Place London SW3 5JB Peter Kavanagh will be reading some of his poems The Exhibition continues until Friday 10th October. 11—6 each day. Other times by appointment.
RSVP Tel: +44 7831255691 info@nicholasbowlby.co.uk 3
La Nue Assise. Pastel on board. 62 X 48 cm
4
Via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome. Pastel on card. 29 X 41cm.
5
La RentrĂŠe. Pastel on board. 38 X 27 cm 6
Chartres. Pastel on card. 29 x 40 cm. 7
Apple and Eve. Pastel on paper. 33 X 22cm. 8
Femme PenchĂŠe.Pastel on card 28 X 40 cm.
9
Après le Bain. Pastel on card. 36 X 29 cm. 10
The Ruin. Pastel on paper. 43 X 27cm.
11
Femme Nue Debout. Pastel on card. 46 X 30 cm. 12
Pontevecchio, Florence. Pastel on card. 28 X 36 cm.
13
Canal du Midi. Pastel on board. 41 X 29 cm.
14
The Necklace. Pastel on paper. 63 X 43 cm.
15
Testing the Water. Pastel on card 28 X 40 cm 16
The Bean Shellers Pastel on card. 36 X 48cm. 17
Brasserie Longchamp. Pastel on board. 44 X 22 cm. 18
Bottles . Pastel on paper. 58 X 28 cm.
19
The Cornerman. Pastel on paper. 29 x 40 cm 20
L'Embrasse. Pastel on paper. 23 X 30 cm.
21
Le Salon. Pastel on card. 29 X 41 cm.
22
Les Tuileries. Pastel on paper. 23 X 39 cm. 23
Pins Parasols. Pastel on board. 39 X 19 cm. 24
The Yacht. Pastel on card. 27 X 40cm
25
Cypresses. Pastel on board. 46 X 25 cm.
26
Le Chignon. Pastel on paper. 47 X 29 cm.
27
Profile of a Girl. Pastel on paper 40 X 28 cm. 28
The Mêlée. Pastels. 45 x 54 cm.
29
Pantheon. Pastel on card. 29 x 40 cm.
30
The house where Keats died, Piazza di Spagna. ‘I can feel the daisies growing overhead' Pastel on card. 28 X 38 cm.
31
The Stocking. Pastel on board. 47 X 32 cm. 32
Summer Hats. Pastel on paper. 28 X 41cm.
33
The Kedron. Pastel on paper. 28 X 40 cm.
34
Red Lady. Pastel on card. 32 x 21cm. 35
Pisa. Pastel on card. 35 x 28 cm. 36
The Bicycle. Pastel on card. 28 X 36 cm.
37
Le Tabouret. Pastel on card. 31 X 48 cm. 38
In the early sixties my father would travel with his family to visit his brother, my uncle, the poet Richard Murphy, living in the old forge in Cleggan outside Clifden. To supplement his meagre income my uncle would sail tourists to Inishbofin in his Galway hooker called The True Light. On the way over you could watch the mackerel dying slowly in the bilges and follow the porpoises. Sometimes we would stop off at High Island where monks had eked out their existence over a thousand years ago. No harbour, just a leap ashore at the foot of a cliff. But the pagan world was present too for Mrs Coyne was definitely a witch. A witch that knitted my geansaí of emerald green that caught every flying fishhook. To my eye then Fodhla (ancient Ireland) was everywhere and the sweet smell off a donkey’s breath a revelation. Today I see how well named was my Uncle’s boat. If a painting of mine holds true light – then I am still aboard, a little seasick, but at least I am not a mackerel.
39
Exhibition can be viewed online at www.murphygallery.com and www.nicholasbowlby.co.uk RSVP Tel: +44 7831255691 info@nicholasbowlby.co.uk Gallery opening times during exhibition Tuesday to Friday 11 - 6pm All other times by appointment
40