Bobbi Fitzpatrick is an Irish artist working between Ireland and London. Her practice explores landscape, atmosphere and memory through abstraction, rooted in a long-standing relationship with the coast. Working with acrylic alongside materials such as sand and marble dust, she builds and disrupts the surface of the canvas through layering, erosion and removal. Horizons emerge and recede, while areas of stillness sit against more worked and weathered surfaces. Her work is informed by a background in interior and textile design, where material, surface and process became central to her visual language. What interests her is not a specific landscape but what remains of one in memory, fragments of light, movement, material and atmosphere. Each piece makes space for the viewer to recognise something of their own.
STUDIO
Each piece is considered not only as an artwork, but in relation to the space around it. Scale, negative space and architecture shape how the work is experienced, allowing it to function as both object and atmosphere.
The work is shaped by a long-standing relationship with the coast, a place of return, familiarity and rhythm throughout my life. Time spent by the sea became a way of measuring stillness, movement and change, particularly during periods when other structures felt uncertain. Making has always felt instinctive, somewhere I could return to without needing to explain myself.
Growing up, summers were spent on the Irish coast, returned to year after year. The coastline became grounding and quietly constant, and that rhythm continues to inform the work.
Returning to painting later on felt like an opportunity to work more freely and intuitively, without expectation. Since then the practice has become increasingly process-led, each piece developing slowly through layering, repetition and reduction, shaped as much by pause as by gesture.
FOUNDATION
The practice is informed by a formal background in textiles, with training completed in Dublin. This foundation established a strong understanding of material, process and composition, shaping a visual sensibility grounded in texture, rhythm and balance. This early focus on making and material exploration continues to influence how work is approached within the studio's wider creative practice.
Professional experience was developed through work in interior design studios in Dublin and London, supported by a diploma in Interior Design and Architecture. Studio-based practice strengthened an understanding of space, proportion and architectural context, alongside the ability to translate concepts into clear, considered outcomes.
It is also why the wall a painting will hang on is treated as part of the making.
“Bobbi’s designs seamlessly blend nature’s raw beauty with contemporary artistry, creating something truly unique”
- Richard Meager, Jacaranda’s Founder and Joint Managing Director
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