Dublin-born, Kildare-based artist Derek Fitzpatrick graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2006. He is represented by The Duke Street Gallery and Trinity Gallery in Dublin, and Barbara Stanley Contemporary Irish Art, London, UK. He was represented by the Glasthule Gallery in Dublin 2017-2018. He has exhibited on various occasions in solo and group shows, including the Duke Street Gallery, Royal Ulster Academy, Villa Tittoni (Milan), Hallward gallery, Glasthule gallery, Chimera gallery and various art centres and galleries around Ireland. His work features in public collections including that of OPW, Ardstone Capital, Unicorn Restaurant and Cavan Arts Centre as well as numerous private collections in Ireland, UK, Europe and USA.
I try to explore the psychological and spiritual places in the landscape around me. My work describes not the actual world but rather an interior realm; they are the product of my imagination and an intuitive merging of numerous sources, including photographs and memories of photographs, fleeting moments, feelings, and moods. I find myself wanting to paint about the human inside nature, or nature as seen by the human mind.
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