Welcome to 'The Art of Jim Fitzpatrick'

If you are asking yourself "who's Jim Fitzpatrick" then read on...Oh! and that's me below!
As an artist I am often asked what are my influences?

The first book I ever read as a child about Irish Mythology was "Irish Sagas and Folk-Tales" by Eileen O'Faolain which I borrowed from Drumcondra Library a few doors down the road from the house once occupied by the family of James Joyce.

That beautifully written volume had an immediate and dramatic effect on me and the walls of my primary school were soon covered with wildly coloured paintings inspired by the exploits of heroes and heroines whose names I already knew from younger days. Long before I reached my teens the obsession that has dominated the rest of my artistic life was strongly rooted in my imagination.