Bobbi Fitzpatrick is an Irish artist working between Ireland and London. Her practice follows a single idea: that a coast is made and remade by the same movement, repeated. Erosion works that way, and so does weaving.
That repetition comes from her degree in textile and surface design, and it is what builds the work: layer over layer, until a horizon appears. The sand in the paintings is collected from the coast she has returned to since childhood, and worked alongside marble dust and acrylic. Each title is a process that belongs to cloth and also to water, naming not where a painting is, but what has happened to it.
What interests her is not a specific landscape but what remains of one in memory. Each piece is made to be familiar enough to evoke a place once known, yet open enough for that memory to become the viewer's own.
SELECTED WORK
Selvedge - Set Studio, 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2026
Minho - rug collection for Jacaranda, 2023
Scour - on long-term display, Palé Hall, Snowdonia
Private commissions, Sloane Square, London
Private collections in London, Scotland, Ireland and Florida
EDUCATION & AWARDS
Diploma in Interior Design, KLC School of Design, London, 2023
Highly Commended, IDI Graduate Design Awards, 2022
BA Textile & Surface Design, NCAD, Dublin, 2021
COAST
Summers were spent on the Irish coast, returned to year after year a place of return, familiarity and rhythm, and a way of measuring stillness, movement and change during periods when other structures felt uncertain. Making has always felt instinctive, somewhere I could return to without needing to explain myself.
Returning to painting later felt like an opportunity to work without expectation. Since then the practice has become increasingly process-led, each piece developing slowly, shaped as much by pause as by gesture.
FOUNDATION
Trained in textiles in Dublin, with a diploma in Interior Design, followed by work in interior design studios in Dublin and London. It is 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