'HER COLOUR IS LIKE CURDLED LIGHT, HER PALETTE HAS BROUGHT THE SKY DOWN TO EARTH, AND THROUGH THE DISTINCTIVE STREAKS AND MACULAR STIPPLINGS SHE HAS DISCOVERED IN HER PAINT SURFACES, SHE SUMMONS THE STARS INTO THE REFLECTING MIRROR OF HER FACADES.'
- Andrew Lambirth
In this new series of paintings, Murdoch continues to explore her preoccupation with light, space and architecture. For this show as well as her urban haunts, she has for the first time been attracted outside London to the rural settings of South Devon - albeit a secret World War II bunker set into the rocks on the coastal path. Murdoch's paintings have been likened to Hopper, de Chirico and the Italian Futurists but her unique method of painting render them quite individual and relate to her emotional involvement with the shifting light within urban spaces.