Darcy Fitzpatrick

Darcy Fitzpatrick is a Professional Artist with a BA in Fine Arts from UC Santa Cruz and Graduate Degree in Education and a Credentialed Public School Educator with over 12 years experience teaching in two California school districts.

Early Life
Darcy has always been a passionate Artist. Some of her fondest childhood memories are of painting classes at the De Young Museum and painting wildlife at California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco - where her Father was Chief Curator of the Steinhart Aquarium.

As an exchange student in Glarus, Switzerland, Darcy took numerous painting classes and traveled around Europe studying art of the masters.

Influences
While studying at U.C. Santa Cruz, Darcy was greatly influenced by her professor and mentor, Mr. Eduardo Carrillo. A renowned painter with a museum dedicated to his works, Eduardo was a source of inspiration and enlightenment.

Other artists that have influenced Darcy include Edgar Payne, Kevin Short, Erin Hanson, Georgia O’Keeffe, and mentor and founder of Marin Open Studios, Kay Carlson.

Intention and Style
Darcy enjoys working in several mediums, including intricate Goauche watercolors, whimsical children’s collages, and her preferred medium, oil on canvas. Her subjects are predominately flowers, landscapes, and wildlife.

The intention of Darcy’s art is to capture movement and patterns in nature in a way that evokes emotion. Using impasto techniques to deepen and layer texture and colorist methods to exaggerate palette, she hopes to inspire “a feeling”.

Darcy intends to grow as an Artist, exploring new techniques, mediums, and subjects. She’s happiest when painting in her studio in Muir Beach – dancing around joyfully with her headphones on.