Roddy Moynihan

Roddy Moynihan is an Irish painter whose work is primarily texture based, combining oil and acrylic, light and colour, to produce paintings that are both weathered and new,and always emotive in expression.

A full time artist, Roddy was born in 1966 in Dublin and is now based in Rush Co Dublin. He began painting as a result of research for a Master's Degree in Archaeology, on the Horse in Early Christian Ireland. He studied with renowned artists Kenneth Webb and Clare Cryan in the late '80s and early '90s. Roddy cites many influences, including the cave painters of Altamira and Lascaux, Juan Gris, Monet, Morandi and Webb.

Best known for his work based on the prehistoric cave paintings of Europe and the early Christian carved stone crosses of Ireland, Roddy is also a painter of landscape, seascape, animal portraits, still life and flower studies.

He has exhibited widely throughout Ireland in venues such as Art Ireland, the Beaufield Mews, the Blueleaf Gallery, the Daffodil Gallery, Figurative Art Ireland,  the Leinster Gallery,  Greenacres Gallery, to name but a few and has work in many private and corporate collections, both in Ireland and abroad.

Recent exhibitions of note include a solo show at the Seahorse Gallery, Balbriggan, 2007, a 3 man show (with Moira McCaffery and Harry Durdin-Robertson), entitled Aspects of Ireland, held in the European Commission Offices, London at their 12 Star Gallery, Sept/Oct 2009 and the Dublin Culture Night Exhibitions at the Oisin Gallery Dublin, 2009 - 2011.

Presently exhibiting with the Oisin Gallery, Dublin and the Village Gallery, Skerries.

Artist's Statement

"Choice of subject matter and painting technique are central to what I seek to express through my work. With a background in Archaeology, I am conscious of and influenced by the vast length of "tradition" of art, from modern day back not just to the Renaissance, but further, to the Early Christian carvings, the prehistoric cave paintings and beyond to the earliest painted pebbles and incised bone and stone artifacts of the Palaeolithic era."

"My work seeks to draw on this "tradition", to achieve an awareness of the depth of this history and to present it in a way that is both contemporary and unique."

"Work is primarily texture based, combining oil and acrylic, light and colour, to produce paintings that are both weathered and new, and always emotive in expression."