About the artist
John Fitzsimons
John Fitzsimons (b. Dublin) is a contemporary Irish painter and printmaker. Represented by SO Fine Art Gallery in the Powerscourt Centre, Dublin.
He graduated from the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Design, Art and Technology (IADT) with an honours degree in fine art in 2000. ‘The Theft of Time’ in 2023 with the SO fine art gallery was his sixth solo painting exhibition. Upcoming Solo show in Septemer 2026.
John is a member of the Graphic Studio Dublin, editions fine art prints for Stoney Road Press and teaches a painting course with the ETB.
His work is in the collections of the Office of Public Works (OPW). The Contemporary Irish Art Society (CIAS). Dublin Castle. Deloitte, Ireland. The Georgian Society Dublin. The National Botanic Gardens. Ulster Bank. Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. Ballynahinch Castle, Galway. IPUT real estate. The Leinster Hotel, Ranalagh, Dublin, Unither Pharmaceuticals, USA and many private collections.
Solo exhibitions
- 2026
- 2023
- 2020
- 2017
- 2014Recollections
Georgian Society Dublin
- 2012
- 2011Conversions
Arthouse, Templebar, Dublin
A solo exhibition of new paintings drawn from a year working along the Irish coastline.
Selected group exhibitions
- 2025Crawls
Biennial at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo.
Biennial at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo.
- 2025
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
In the press
- 2026John Fitzsimons: ‘The idea dictates the structure and the structure dictates the colour'
The Irish Independent
Artist John Fitzsimons is a master of colour and form. Reading this, your eyes move from left to right; in John Fitzsimons’s painting Grasp, the eye is drawn in the other direction. Although an abstract composition, Fitzsimons says he was “thinking particularly about plants reaching for the light and space, but also about life generally and its inherent desire to exist and to grow”.