Emma Fitzpatrick

I am a visual artist, born in Dublin and based in Leicester, UK. I work predominantly with printmaking, painting and drawing. I work from my studio, Leicester Print Workshop and frequently sketch outdoors. My monotone landscape work has been influenced by the natural landscape of the West Coast of Ireland with its dramatic changing weather fronts, mix of raw bleakness and beauty, primordial feel and a landscape scattered with remnants of past communities. I am interested in the powerful impact that nature has on humanity over time. I am impressed by human ingenuity and my work reflects on the sense of transience. I create monotype prints by applying ink onto a plate, wiping parts away, then reacting to those marks in an instinctive way with new ones, repeating the process until I feel it is time to stop. As I work, I often feel that an imagined world emerges, goes through great changes and then fades and that I capture only one moment when I put it through the press to print. My paintings of streetscapes in contrast relate to a sense of celebration of our achievements in constructing sophisticated city environments. They use colour and relate to the themes above but from a closer, current perspective. I am interested in everything I see including infrastructure such as telephone wires, traffic posts, bins and not just the architecture. I usually complete this work on site as I think it helps captures some of the energy of the present moment. In 2021, I was winner of ‘The Henton Ellis Prize’ at Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition. I was awarded a ‘Develop your Creative Practice’ grant from Arts Council England in 2019 to develop as a printmaker. I have shown work across the UK including the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Tarpey Gallery, Royal Society of British Artists, Graphic Society of Fine Art, Society of Women Artists, Leicester Society of Artists and Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. Leicester