by emma fitzpatrick
Monotype
h: 8 w: 12 (cms).
This monoprint is part of a new series of work exploring change within landscape and manmade environments.
About the Artist
emma fitzpatrick
Website: emmafitzpatrick.co.uk/
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Statement
I am an Irish painter and printmaker based between Dublin and Leicester. My work as a printmaker has been influenced by the remote, vast, landscape of the West Coast of Ireland.
My landscape images are inspired by the dramatic weather fronts and the primordial feel of this land plus the visible remnants of past human activity scattered around. I am interested in the idea that we continually try to control our environments in order to survive despite the chaotic impact that nature has over us over time and what we leave behind.
The idea behind my Flow print is inspired from spending a year visiting a relative in a Care Home and meeting residents. It is based around the idea that we are born strong and grounded but shaped by the storms of life over time until we fade from vision.
The process for my monotone prints involves using a mix of painterly, fluid marks using printing ink on a metal plate and then altering those marks in a more controlled way and repeating the process until I have an image that I am happy with to print. I sometimes include drypoint lines or etching techniques for my monoprints. Each of the unique images on the plate go through great changes, as if changing weather fronts, until finally one ‘moment in time’ is captured when I decide it is ready to put through the press. Sketching outdoors is an important part of my process to help explore ideas and reflect.
Biography
Emma Fitzpatrick is an Irish contemporary painter and printmaker, born in Dublin in 1969 and based between Dublin and Leicester, UK. Her work has been influenced by the remote, natural landscape of the West Coast of Ireland where she visited many times since childhood and lived for a year. She currently uses monotype and drypoint techniques in her work but has used etching and lithography in the past.
Emma was awarded a ‘Develop Your Creative Practice’ grant from Arts Council England in 2019 to develop her work as a printmaker. She attended an artist residency in Cill Rialaig, Ireland in 2020 and 2025 plus Brisons Veor in 2021. She is a member of the Leicester Print Workshop and Visual Artists Ireland.
She has shown her work in annual exhibitions in the UK including the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Bankside Gallery, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal West of England Academy, Graphic Society of Fine Art, Society of Women Artists, Tarpey Gallery in Derbyshire and the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She had a solo show of work in Leicester in 2023.
Emma worked as a Television Production Designer in RTE, Dublin and as a Concept Design Visualiser on international museum design projects from Leicester, UK before focusing on her own work in printmaking and painting. She was commissioned to produce paintings for various projects including for a boutique hotel, Canal & River Trust and Leicester City Council.