Rod Coyne graduated from Dun Laoghaire and Crawford Colleges of Art before moving to Düsseldorf in 1990. After a decade working in his Rhine-side studio, he returned to paint the Irish landscape en plein air.
He founded the Avoca Studio Gallery in 2003, followed later by the Avoca Painting School. In 2015 he was invited to take part in the TV competition Sky Arts Landscape Painter of the Year.
Irish fiction laureate Sebastian Barry said of Rod’s work: ‘His images could be straight out of my own memory, very strange and wonderful, the red lightship, the Wicklow high valley, the angle glimpsed’.
