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David Harris
Murphy Elliott Profile
Nov. 10, 2008

Murphy


Murphy Elliott's futuristic oil paintings can be found winning awards in international art contests, featured in space magazines and adding color to the National Space Society's website.
But in Plant City, they know him as one of the best house painters in town.
To understand Murphy's art, you have to understand Murphy's personal history – his genius, his childhood, his passion for the future of the human race – and how those elements add up to spectacular and prophesying oils on canvas painted at night, and homes and offices immaculately painted during the day.
Murphy Elliott's parents placed him in foster care when he was five years old, along with his older sister and two younger brothers. His dad was a house painter, but when Billy Graham channeled the power of the Almighty and apparently cured his tuberculosis, he took to fire-and-brimstone Pentecostal preaching to big-tent...