Rod Coyne

Rod Coyne was born in Dun Laoghaire in 1967. He attended first the Dun Laoghaire College of Art and then the Crawford College of Art in Cork. Upon graduating, he migrated to Düsseldorf where he launched his career as a fine artist. During his ten-year residency, he exhibited in Düsseldorf, Hanover, Munster, Mainz, Brussels, the United Kingdom & the USA.

In 1999, Rod and his wife returned to Ireland, settling in Dalkey. Later that year, he won the London South Bank Banner Competition and was subsequently offered a residency at Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs. This was followed by his first Irish solo exhibition, entitled "A Homecoming" in Dublin that summer. Since then he has shown his work in the RHA Annual Show, Ashford Gallery, An Oireachtais, the Royal Ulster Academy and innumerable galleries in Ireland, Europe and in the US. Rod currently lives and works at his studio & gallery in Avoca, Wicklow, Co Dublin.

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This is a series of new works by Rod Coyne capturing the environment and weather in Ireland.

In the last two years, he has made the switch from acrylic paints to oils, giving his paintings a deeper more vibrant essence. Rod experiments with his mediums creating a depth on the canvas.

The layers of paint bring the viewer further into the picture giving a more three-dimensional experience than ever before,

"This is the result of twelve months intensive experimentation, I have been re-interpreting my old haunts, the seascapes of Dublin and Killiney bays, the Wicklow Mountains and Cill Rialaig Co, Kerry.

After painting en pleine air as usual, I take the canvases back to the studio and manipulate them. I have sent some images into such a tailspin that the original subject has become completely dissolved."