“If a picture tells a thousand words, then a video will do that ten-fold. Here are couple of Rod-Cast videos documenting painting Wild Atlantic Way. Amid all that creativity I set out to record my daily challenges painting in the teeth of the Wild Atlantic Way. This collection of short Rod-Casts will take you on that journey, facing down Storm Kathleen, crashing through bogs in the van and basically painting the be-jaysus out of the landscape.” – Rod Coyne.
Day #1. I have just returned from a two-week painting residency at the Cill Rialaig Artist’s Retreat, Co. Kerry. It was a fantastic time for me, where I could disappear down the rabbit hole of painting, painting, painting.
Day #3. Comedy artist studio tour, before Rod straps his canvas to Ballinskelligs Pier to paint the tide pressing through the gap at Horse Island.
Day #4. Interestingly, on arrival, I felt compelled to go back to basics, plein air painting Ballinskelligs Bay with acrylics on paper as I had done here twenty years before. Then bit by bit I allowed myself to become ever more experimental. By the time my residency was finished I had broken new ground, creating new work in a brand new style.
Day #7. I had set myself the task of tapping into pre-Christian lore attached to this beautiful and sometimes barren landscape. As a direct conduit I had decided to focus on those ancient portals to the other world. Standing Stones, Holy Wells and ancient Passage Tombs were to feature strongly.
Day #8. In a time before written history early settlers documented their stories in the actual features of the landscape. Thus, knowledge and wisdom were passed down through the generations using that constant of the landscape’s features.
Day #10. This why they call it the “Wild Atlantic Way”. As Storm Kathleen moves in from the Atlantic Rod does a reccie sheltered beside Ballinskelligs Pier. Gales, big wave and drama as a spring tide presses through the gap at a spot known locally as the Lady’s Ruff.
Day #11. This why they call it the “Wild Atlantic Way”. After a night of storm force winds, Rod straps his canvas to Ballinskelligs Pier to paint the broiling spring tide pressing through the gap at Horse Island.
