Fiona Murphy is an Irish artist who lived in Cuba for 12 years and moved to Washington in 2008. She left her native Ireland for Florence in 1993 in a search for art and life that took her to Brazil and Ecuador. She has a B. A. in Fine Art Painting from the Limerick School of Art and Design and a Higher Diploma in Interior Design from the Limperts Academy of Design in Dublin. She acquired a passion for mural painting in the North East of Brazil and developed the medium further on walls in Cuba.   Fiona worked as head of the Art Department at the International School of Havana. Her last exhibition in Havana was about Cuban leader Fidel Castro after he disappeared from public sight due to illness. In Washington, she took part in a mural project at Eatonville restaurant dedicated to African American writer Zora Neale Hurston. Fiona taught art at Archbishop Carroll High School before moving to Oyster-Adams Bilingual School to teach art in Spanish (PK to 3rd grade). She connect the school to Artsonia, the online gallery for school children. Go to
http://www.artsonia.com/schools/Adams33