About Eugene

Quinn grew up outside NYC in the suburbs of New Jersey. It was the perfect rural and urban mix for the young curious observer. After graduating from Delbarton high school he attended Providence College where he studied many areas of interest and at times pursued majors in biology and humanities before deciding to choose painting as the focus of his Studio Art BA. The exceptional Development of Western Civilization Program at Providence fed his curiosity and soon he had found a choice of career and a fulfilling life in making art.

He went back to NY and worked in Queens while going to night classes at NYSVA then the Art Students League and was fortunate to study under John Phillip Osborne at the Ridgewood Art Institute where he found the inspiration and courage to soon enter into selling his art on the sidewalks in NYC. Two other notables John Traynor and John Sanden also helped Quinn take in the knowledge handed down from generations of significant painters. The Art Festival calendar quickly brought him back to New England and for several years he traveled back and forth to NY from his new love Cape Ann Ma where he kept a studio on Rocky Neck and then on Bearskin Neck when he wasn’t on the road. Between there and Maine he grew as a painter for about 15 years until he began to split his time between New England and Florida where the shows in the South enabled him to have a full year of events, lots more beautiful painting material and most importantly selling paintings year round and seeing his family.

Quinn made Florida his full time home eventually and founded his Coquina Studio in Jacksonville Beach where he teaches painting and has a gallery in a historic cottage just steps from the Ocean.