Emma Coyle Emma Coyle

Coyle has been working within art for over 20 years and has been based in London since 2006. She is represented by the Helwaser gallery on Madison Avenue in New York who hosted a solo show of Coyle’s paintings in 2022 titled ‘The Best Revenge’. The exhibition was listed 12th in GalleriesNow’s August Special, ‘The 30 most popular exhibitions on now’[worldwide]. Artnet listed the show in its ‘5 sizzling emerging artists, the Artnet Gallery Network recommends checking out before summer’s end’[worldwide].

Coyle is a recipient of International Art Market’s Gold List award. ‘Top international contemporary artist of today', ‘Recommended artist to invest in and to be inspired by’, with work acquired by past Tate Museum Trustee Dame Janet Wolfson de Botton.

Coyle’s first education in art in the 1990’s included an introduction to 1st wave New York Pop Art of the 1950’s. Her current figurative work focuses on the use of contemporary fashion magazine imagery and advertisements, to produce painterly images of a Fine Art quality. Combining primary and secondary line work with ideas in abstraction, minimalism and negative space.

Earlier in her career in Ireland Coyle exhibited in many galleries in Ireland and exhibited for the Irish National Portrait exhibition in 2005. Coyle also exhibited for charities in the Royal Hibernian Academy and Adam’s Fine Art auctioneers. Just before moving to London Coyle had solo exhibitions in the Signal Art Centre in Co. Wicklow and the Bank of Ireland’s art centre in Dublin and was described as ‘one of the city’s most promising new artist’ {Metro Life newspaper- January 2006}, and was also described as a ‘rising young artist’ {Irish Independent- May 2006}.

Coyle’ work was selected by Los Angeles curator Bridget Carron for her collection Power Pop on Saatchi’ online gallery in 2014. In 2018 Coyle’ painting 12.16.07 won the Artness Magazine cover competition and won her an Artist of the Year 2019; Honorable Mention Award from Circle Foundation in France and another Honorable Mention Award from New York’s Grey Cube gallery in 2022. In 2019 her painting series ‘12.16’ also won her a Special Artist Award from BESTART.  In April 2020 painting Linda no.1 receive a review from Dab Art Co. Los Angeles, and in 2021 won a Finalist Award from Art Show International also in Los Angeles and a Distinguished Award from Canada’s ArtAscent Magazine.         

Her recently completed painting series ’Linda’ and ‘Binary’ deal with embracing and disrupting formal composition. For the first time in 2020 Coyle chose to paint mixed white backgrounds in certain pieces, mixing colours is very important to each piece. This work earned an online review in 2020 from Dab Art Co. in Los Angeles and an inclusion in their current Artsy exhibition. Also, in 2021 Coyle was awarded a Distinguished Award from Canada’s ArtAscent magazine and a Finalist Award from Los Angeles’ Art Show International.

This year Coyle continues her work in figurative art with her ‘Sw16’ series, based on contemporary print media images. Painting Sw16.1 received a Finalist Award from Art Show International in Los Angeles in 2022. And most recently in 2022 her new work won awards from art organizations including Florida’s Light Space Time gallery and additional awards from the Circle Foundation and Grey Cube gallery.             

She is also working on still life in oils, an abstract painting project, woodblock prints and after 16 years has now returned to photography, using Polaroid and 120mm camera formats.

Through Coyle’s career her work has appeared on the cover and within many publications including The Times (UK), London's Mayfair Times (UK), Avari art (USA), A5 (UK), Al-Tiba9 (Spain), M&Art (Sweden) and Visions Libres (Germany) to name a few. Also, on the covers of Level 25 art journal (USA), Emergo (Netherlands), Litro (UK), and Kapa magazine (Greece).

Interviews with the artist have been published in many online and print magazines, including Art Reveal, Murze art magazine, Family Office Elite magazine and Artjobs.com Most recently Coyle was interview for Yale University Radio in America.

[Coyle travels annually to study Scandinavian 18th and 19th Century art and has interests in horticulture, palaeontology, film noir and is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society in London]