The Space Between: A Solo Exhibition by Emma Fitzpatrick

The Space Between

A Solo Exhibition by Emma Fitzpatrick

Gallery: Arts for All, Cityside Retail Park, Belfast BT15 1WA. Tel. 02890752134

Preview:

Thursday 3^rdNovember 2022 – 7-9pm

Exh Cont:

Friday 4^thNovember until Thursday 5^th January 2023 9.30am – 4pm

Arts for All is delighted to present a solo exhibition of contemporary oil paintings by Emma Fitzpatrick inspired by her love of our breath-taking coastlines.

Emma is an artist, an educator and a mum to two gorgeous girls. She lives in Belfast but spends much of her free time in Donegal admiring its beauty.  Nature is a huge inspiration for her as she endeavours to capture the essence of our rugged landscape through her use of palette knife as she builds her work up in layers.  As a graduate of textile design from NCAD Dublin, touch is as important as the visual to Emma as she uses her passion for the tactile to intuitively play with the elements of texture, colour and space within her work. 

Emma States “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.  The water, the rocks, the land and the sunlight elude nature’s perfect energy.  I see them as the the space between:  the space between here and there, between heaven and earth, the space to connect and rebalance, the space where there is only good.  This series explores the edges of our rugged landscape and our connection to it.”