Emma Fitzpatrick

Emma Fitzpatrick is an award-winning artist based in Belfast. She graduated in textile design from the National College of Art & Design, Dublin and travelled extensively before settling in Belfast as a teacher of Art & Design. In recent years, she has successfully developed her painting practice. She has exhibited her paintings, worked with interior designers and other clients, and her artworks are now held in private collections locally and internationally.
Emma is best known for highly textured paintings - landscapes or abstracts. She endeavours to capture the essence of Ireland’s rugged landscape primarily using the palette knife and building layers over time with mixed media and oil paints. As a graduate of textile design, touch is as important as the visual to her, and she uses her passion for the tactile to intuitively play with the elements of texture, colour and space within her work.

Talking about her work, she comments: ‘We come from a small island where we are surrounded by the most beautiful shorelines and rocky headlands.  We are never far from the waters edge.  For most of my life I have been looking to the edges of our island for comfort and inspiration as many of us do.’