Archive for June, 2010

Explorations at galeria Lucia

June 27th, 2010

Roger´s Charcoal collection.

Explorations at Lucia, Fuengirola.

Charcoal collection by Roger Cummiskey

These are the images displayed by Roger.

Pictures from the Show.

Explorations

Galería LUCIA, Calle Maestra Ángeles Aspiazú, Fuengirola. Where to find Galeria Lucia.

Exhibition: July, 2010

Open: Monday-Saturday 12.00-16.00 and Monday-Friday19.00-23.00, Sunday closed.

Elaine Carlton UK

Elaine displays a range of her recent work, much of which is inspired by and reflects her love of Andalucia. Her work uses a range of textile techniques and media and an excess of fibres and threads.

Roger Cummiskey Ireland

In this exhibition Roger shows images in Chacoal based on literary and historical themes and a still life and abstract nude. One small oil painting of James Joyce.

Look now!

The AIA-Group was formed five years ago by professional and dedicated visual artists from around Europe, who are all living and work-ing in Andalucía.

Original Art makes a unique gift!

Further information is available from the Chairman, Roger Cummiskey at 952 592 652 or their web site www.aia-group.net

Gerrie Gran says “Come and join us to enjoy the beautiful food that I create and admire the magnificent paintings. You will not be disappointed!”

Roger says “When I paint I try to interpret in paintings that which those famous authors expressed so well in words”.

James Joyce in oil.

The Leader News.

Holiday accommodation.

Eyes of Riogordo

June 16th, 2010

2011: DELIGHTFUL click to see times, directions and participants.

Participating Members

Auli Suvanto Finland

Girdon Haslitt UK

Enrique Linaza Spain

Dolores Cummiskey Ireland

Roger Cummiskey Ireland

Olivia Garner UK

Ian Hunter UK

Philip Magee Ireland

Juan Cruz Spain

Richard Wood UK


Don Quijote - Roger Cummiskey

Despues de la Batella.

The Mayor of Riogordo, Sr Alarcón, and the Chairman of the AIA-Group are pleased to invite you to participate in the opening of the exhibition:

Eyes of Riogordo

Inauguration and reception: Friday July 2, at 21.00

Ethnographic Museum, Calle Iglesia 14, Riogordo, Málaga Province.

Images from the hanging and the exhibition.

Exhibition: 02/07-31/07, 2010.

Open: 11 – 14 h and 17 – 20 h. Friday-Sunday and Holidays.

Participating Members

Dolores Cummiskey Ireland

Roger Cummiskey Ireland

Olivia Garner UK

Ian Hunter UK

Philip Magee Ireland

Nigel Short UK

Ursula Williams Peru

Richard Wood UK

An exhibition of a variety of paintings by eight members of the Andalusian International Artists Group.

The AIA-Group was formed six years ago by professional and dedicated visual artists from around the world, who are all living and working in Andalucía.

Further information is available from the AIA-Group web site – www.AIA-Group.net

Riogordo Invitation July 2

Roger and Dolores Images from the exhibition.

Photos from the opening.

Riogordo opening Video by P Magee

Riogordo Opening Video by Philip Magee 2.


Now you see it!

June 8th, 2010

La Playa

La Playa - Roger Cummiskey

Reading from Ulysses.

Now you see it!


Restaurante Jinete, Carretera La Cala Golf Km 4.5,  Mijas Costa.

Exhibition: Until July 30, 2010

Open: daily 13-21h.

An exhibition of a variety of paintings, drawings, textiles and photographs by five members of the Andalusian International Artists Group.

Dolores Cummiskey Ireland

Roger Cummiskey Ireland

Juan Cruz Spain

Ian Hunter England

Richard Wood England

The AIA-Group was formed five years ago by professional and dedicated visual artists from around Europe, who are all living and working in Andalucía.

Further information is available from the Chairman, Roger Cummiskey at 952 592 652 or their web site www.aia-group.net

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Your Invitation.

Valtocado Annual Exhibition

June 8th, 2010

2011 Exhibition.

Art at the Studio Show

Opening Reception: 11th June 2010, 7.00 – 9.00 p.m. Photos of the opening.

Exhibition: 12th June – 13th June 2010, 4.00 – 6.00 p.m.

46 Calle Colinas, Urb Valtocado, Mijas.

Andalusian International Artists Group Annual Art Exhibition.

From 11th – 13th of June the Annual Collective Exhibition of the members of the Andalusian International Artists group (www.aia-group.net) is taking place in Valtocado, Mijas, at the studio of the Deputy Chairman, Richard Wood. The main focus is given to new work produced in the last year by the members in various media, including oil, acrylic, watercolour and textile. The objective is to intensify the cultural relations between Spain and the multitude of individual artists from diverse backgrounds within their newly adopted environment to an audience within the region of Andalucía.

About The Andalusian International Artists Group

The AIA-Group is an initiative created six years ago by professional and dedicated artists living and working in Andalucía.  The group represents an interdisciplinary, international self help group of likeminded individuals engaged in the visual arts – primarily painting, photography and textile art at this time. They are interested in staging exhibitions and enabling new forms of communication, distribution and discussion. Since 2004 the group has presented exhibitions in Casa del la Cultura, commercial Exhibition venues, Commercial Galleries, Individual villas, Restaurants and Bars offering facilities to artists. They are a non-profit, voluntary group.

Participants in this Exhibition:

17 artists, 7 Countries

Exhibiting artists: Richard Wood, Elaine Carlton, Joy Fahey, Ian Hunter, Nigel Short, Olivia Garner, England; Sian Kirkby, Wales; Margit Björklund, Sweden; Auli Suvanto,Finland; Ursula Williams, Peru; Ivan Riis and Karen Singh, Denmark; Juan Cruz and Enrique Linaza, Spain; Philip Magee, Roger Cummiskey and Dolores Cummiskey,Ireland.

Seventeen members of the Andalusian International Artists Group partake in this Annual collective exhibition in the beautiful surroundings of this magnificent villa that houses the studio of Richard Wood. Join us to enjoy not only the original artworks but also the magnificent scenery and the luxurious ambiance. You are assured of a welcome.

Inaugration: 11th June 2010, 7.00 – 9.00p.m.

Galeria Studio R&J Valtocado.Art at the Studio Show

Expo June 11 – 13, 2010 Where to find Studio R&J

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Directions to Valtocado

Take the road from Fuengirola to Mijas Pueblo.

After the BP Garage and Roundabout take the road to Coin not into Mijas.

Follow the road above Mijas, pass the cemetary sign.

The road wiggles along, then decends, you will see a new development looking like little white boxes.

Before that on the left is the  entrance to Valtocado Urbanisation.

Continue down this road Cypress trees on the left and Pine trees on the right.

Take the 3rd road on the left and then the first on the right into CALLE COLINAS NO 46 is down on the left, (Big black Gate). The road becomes a turning circle.

Orchids

June 5th, 2010

April 2011

June 2010

It´s nearly the end of April and the orchids are beginning to bloom.  A small rose plant is doing it´s best also.

Roger Cummiskey using a Canon 450D, close-up.

roger cummiskey (artroger), artist.

Bloomsday 2010

June 5th, 2010
Mr Bloom

Mr Bloom

The launch of the documentary A Stroll Through Ulysses, by film maker Noel Duffy, combined with interviews with the writer, presenter and narrator, Roger Cummiskey, Artist, will take place on TV via the net during the launch on Bloomsday – 16 June – on the ustream TV Chanel.

As more information comes in this site will be updated.

A Stroll Thro´Ulysses – The film. View here.

Interviews, readings and discussions.

Pinta en Mijas y Enfoca Mijas.

June 5th, 2010

Sunday 6th June. 09-14 h.

Roger Cummiskey, Artist

Roger Cummiskey, Artist

Pinta en Mijas y Enfoca Mijas.Concurso de pintura rápida al aire libre X Edition organized by la Concejalía de Cultura en colaboración con la Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores.

Enfoca Mijas is a digital photograpohic competition – 2nd Photographic Marathon.

Both take place on June 6th in the white village – Mijas Pueblo.

Roger painting Mijas Pueblo

Roger painting Mijas Pueblo

Window Mijas Pueblo

Window Mijas Pueblo

Fuengirola Art Fair 2010

June 4th, 2010

I attended the opening of The II Fuengirola Art Fair today and have been asked to put a few images onto the Artquilar stand for the next few days.

Ask for Arie or call him at 675130035.

I took some photos of the event that you can view by clicking here.

The images that I will put in are

Castillo Sohail, watercolour at €136.00

On the Beach, watercolour at €136.00

She weeps over Rahoon, watercolour at €300.00

c15-Castillo Sohail Roger Cummiskey

Castillo Sohail

She weeps over Rahoon.

She weeps over Rahoon.

Children Playing

Children Playing

Bloomsday ArtPin – Mr Bloom

June 2nd, 2010

Bloomsday ArtPin – Mr Bloom – by Roger Cummiskey

OFFER OF THE MONTH:

After a drawing by James Joyce of Mr Bloom.

Mr Bloom Art Pin $8.00 or €5.00. 2.25 inches (5.7 cm). Free Postage.

Securely pay using Moneybookers.

CONTACT ME HERE.

Signed and numbered verso. Edition 30. Collectors item.

Available Now Mr Bloom Button.

Art Pin – metal, from Original watercolor painting on paper.

“Small is the New Big”.

And now for Bloomsday 2010! – 16th June.


Mr Bloom is the main character in James Joyce’s Ulysses. This image is taken from a drawing on a napkin done by James Joyce in Myron Nutting´s studio in Paris during the 1920´s.

Bloomsday – June 16th – is an annual celebration among Joyce fans throughout the world, from Fort Lauderdale to Melbourne. It is celebrated in at least sixty countries worldwide, but nowhere so imaginatively, of course, as in Dublin. The novel, Ulysses, by James Joyce recounts the hour-by-hour events of one day in Dublin – June 16, 1904 – as an ordinary Dubliner, Leopold Bloom, wends his way through the urban landscape, the odyssey of a modern-day Ulysses. ReJoyce Dublin!

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Louise Bourgeois Dies in New York City at 98

June 1st, 2010

Influential French-born American Artist Louise Bourgeois Dies in New York City at 98.


From the Tate UK site.

I have had the great pleasure of seeing her work in Dublin´s IMMA and in Málaga CAC over the years.

What a ripe old age.

What a career.

Her work will live on.

RIP Louise.

Working in a wide variety of materials, she tackled themes relating to male and female bodies and emotions of anger, betrayal, even murder. Her work reflected influences of surrealism, primitivism and the early modernist sculptors such as Alberto Giacometti and Constantin Brancusi.

Bourgeois’ work was almost unknown to the wider art world until she was 70, when New York’s Museum of Modern Art presented a solo show of her career in 1982.

“This is not a show that is easy to digest,” New York Times critic Grace Glueck wrote. “The reward is an intense encounter with an artist who explores her psyche at considerable risk.”

In his book “American Visions,” Time art critic Robert Hughes called her “the mother of American feminist identity art. … Bourgeois’s influence on young artists has been enormous.”

He noted the key difference in her use of sexual imagery: She explores “femaleness from within, as distinct from the familiar male conventions of looking at it from the outside, from the eyeline of another gender. … Surrealist fascination with the female body becomes, so to speak, turned inside out.”

Among the honors coming to her was a National Medal of Arts, awarded by President Clinton in 1997. In October, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

In 2001, thousands of tourists saw her work “Spiders” when it was exhibited on the plaza at Rockefeller Center for 2 1/2 months as part of a Public Art Fund program to promote outdoor exhibits in New York.

It featured a 30-foot-high spider, “Maman,” carrying a basket of eggs, flanked by two smaller spiders. (“Maman” means “Mama” in French.)

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