Conánn FitzPatrick

Update: Written in early 2004 this page is painfully out of date.

Working in Oil I have been concentrating on a series of paintings of clouds. Within this I have tried to stay away from the obvious dramatic thunderous composition instead trying to concentrate on subtle areas of tonal change and movement.

The journey to beginning these paintings was long and veered in many different directions, after leaving high school I began working in animation as a traditional special effects artist for Sullivan Bluth in Dublin. I moved to Los Angeles in the early 90's and moved between several companies before beginning work at DreamWorks. It was while working at DreamWorks that I developed two very important things. A love of the colour and structure of nature's elements, and a severe case of tendonitis.

The tendonitis stopped me in my tracks and caused me to completely reassess what I wanted and could do with my life and after a number of years of experimentation with computer art, 3D animation and web design I came back to what it was I felt was important.

Painting with oil is like nothing else I have had the pleasure of doing and while I wish I had more paintings under my belt there are only so many hours in a day and I will just have to wait to see where the next twenty paintings will take me.