Fitzpatrick has quickly established herself with exhibitions of her work on both sides of the Atlantic. Her latest will show at the Ward-Nasse Gallery on Prince Street in Soho through the month of May.
While preparing for the exhibition in New York recently, she recalled the day she fell ill at the Bray, Co. Wicklow, home she shares with her husband. “It was in the middle of the day. I got this horrendous pain in my head,” she said. “It came out of nowhere.”
Fitzpatrick was taken to a local ER and then transferred later in the day to Beaumont Hospital on Dublin’s North side. Aware she was experiencing a serious threat to her health, she employed the meditative practices she’d learnt during an illness in her 20s. “I knew how to go to that calm place,” she said. Her younger self, Fitzpatrick said, would have panicked.
She loves to dance and that was her motivation in wanting to prevent debilitating brain damage. In fact, she was told later her course of action probably prevented her death.
She experienced something beyond the usual meditation. “I connected with the most blissful energy,” she said. “The senses were extremely heightened.
“It’s hard to put into words,” said Fitzpatrick, who was born in Dublin in 1969. Instead, she expresses it through art.
“It took me about a year to fully recover, but I knew I wanted to do something to share that experience,” she recalled.
Fitzpatrick’s style is a “fusion of light, crystal and silk,” which aims to recreate the sense of “deep inner peace, serenity, harmony and soul connection” she’d felt.
She has U.S. copyright and EU registration for more than 400 designs. And she’s won plaudits from people such as the American activist and spiritual author Marianne Williamson.
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