Dublin-born, self-taught artist, known for his violently bright palette and "spiky manner of painting". Influenced by Edward Munch and the Cobra School of North European painting. Brighid McLaughlin writes: "Murphy's sensibility is lurid, the imagery overt. These are things done with conviction" (Oriel Gallery catalog).

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T. C. Murphy was born in Walkinstown, County Dublin, and went to school in Drimnagh Castle. He left at the age of sixteen to take up an apprenticeship in the jewelery trade with Irish Diamond Jewelers.

After four years, he became restless and traveled to Denmark which is when he began to paint. He subsequently moved to Christiana, an experimental commune south of Copenhagen, where he devoted himself to his art. He spent four years in the artists' colony and returned to Ireland in 1988.