DRAWING A FINE LINE

Digital artist Eamonn Murphy has a passion for architectural imagery that has brought him an enthusiastic following

- Kate Houghton

Stockport resident Eamonn Murphy is a man of many talents. His latest passion – digitally created artworks of Cheshire’s towns and cities – have garnered quite a fan base and have been reproduced in sizes from postcard upwards for locals who love them and huge corporations wanting to celebrate the location they have chosen.

Eamonn took a foundation course in fine art, before progressing to a degree in graphic design and started his working life as a graphic designer in his hometown of Chester.

“After a few years I started to become interested in the impact that visual design could have on business performance,” he says, “so I went back to college to study business. Having completed that study I then got involved in information technology, right around the time of the first personal computers, which I became absolutely fascinated with – the very first Apple, the Commodore Pet, those kind of devices – it was fascinating the potential they had to change the way people worked and communicated.

“At that time the visual capabilities of those machines were extremely limited. I carried on working in the IT industry but kept my hand in visual communications in different ways. I was still selling artworks, doing commissions here and there, design work – a mix of commercial design and purely creative. As time went on we began to see a convergence of technology and visual communication – what we used to call multimedia, the facility to display high quality photographs or moving images on a computer screen – and this fascinated me even more as it brought together the two passions I had developed.