Posts Tagged ‘watercolor’

Artprice Auction

January 11th, 2012

Roger Cummiskey The Artist – Roger Cummiskey.

 

Artprice Auction of original artworks starts on Wednesday 18 January at 01:00.

01/18/2012 at 01:00 

CLICK HERE.

Items for Auction.

 

James Joyce Paintings, Prints and Wear.

January 3rd, 2012

Roger CummiskeyThe Artist – Roger Cummiskey.

A young James Joyce.

James Joyce Paintings.

James Joyce Prints.

James Joyce Wear.

 

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My Flowers

March 26th, 2011

Contact me.

These photographs are for your pleasure, cared for by my wife in our utility room!

Orchids – Mar/Apr 2011

Jinete Art Exhibition

March 8th, 2011

Buds of Spring.

Jinete Art Exhibition
Carretera La Cala Golf Km 4.5, Mijas Costa.  Directions.
Exhibition: Until 02 May 2011
Open daily except Friday 13-22 h.

An AIA-ArtGroup Collective Art Exhibition


Six Members of the Andalusia International Artists Group show new images at Jinete in a collective art exhibition for your pleasure.

Roger Cummiskey,
Juan Cruz,
Dolores Cummiskey,
Ian Hunter,
Nalini Cook,
Richard Wood,

Each artist displays six images in watercolour, oil, acrylic and cross stitch.

Jinete is on the road from La Cala de Mijas towards La Cala Golf on the right hand side. Directions.

Karen Wilson, the gallery owner said “We are delighted to have these  artists of the Andalusian International Artists Group exhibiting at Jinete. Their works bring a fresh look for Spring. It promises to be a delightful exhibition”.
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 web site -  www.aia-group.net or directly from the Chairman, Roger Cummiskey at 952 592 652.

Buds of spring.


Francesca

ArteSol.

March 3rd, 2011

ArteSol

Exhibition:  16-30 April 2011. Opening times  17.30-19.30 h.

Hotel La Fuente del Sol, Paraje Rosas Bajas S/N., 29260 La Joya- Antequera.


Opening Reception on Saturday, 16th April 2011 at 18.00-20.00 h.

Invitation here!


Seven artists – Three countries – all members of the Andalusian International Artists Group, exhibit a selection of their artworks.

Enrique Linaza, Juan Cruz Plaza, Spain,

Dolores Cummiskey, Philip Magee and Roger Cummiskey, Ireland,

Nalini Shanthi Cook and Olivia Garner, UK.

This exhibition is supported by Financial Advisors.

Blevins Franks

HotCosta.

Fine Art America.

Art Exhibitions – March.

February 28th, 2011

Spring Awakening – an AIA exhibition

Painter Roger and textile artist Dolores Cummiskey jointly exhibit a selection of their works in the Galeria Restaurante Lucia, Calle Maestra Ángeles Aspiazú, Fuengirola (by the 3 horse roundabout).

Until 26th April daily between 12-4 and 7-11 pm, except Sundays when it is closed.

Your Art Oasis … Imagine Success!

Hope to see you there!

Short video.

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Spring Awakening

February 4th, 2011

Spring Awakening – an AIA exhibition


Joyce the Pluralist - Roger Cummiskey

Tower Bridge London; Dolores Cummiskey

The husband and wife team – AIA-Group artists, painter Roger and textile artist Dolores Cummiskey jointly exhibit a selection of their works in the Galeria Lucia, Calle Maestra Ángeles Aspiazú, Fuengirola (by the 3 horse roundabout).

The exhibition runs from the 1st March to the 26th April daily between 12-4 and 7-11 pm, except Sundays when it is closed.

Gerrie Gran, the gallery owner said “I am delighted to welcome back both Roger and Dolores and I am looking forward to seeing their new work”

Roger’s paintings are themed on the writings and wanderings of the author James Joyce and consist quotations and poems reflecting his words in watercolour. Dolores will exhibit some of her extraordinary cross stitching based on Spanish and international themes.

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 web site www.aia-group.net

Images

Joyce the pluralist by Roger Cummiskey

Tower Bridge by Dolores Cummiskey.

Your Art Oasis… Imagine Success!

It promises to be a fun event. Hope to see you there!

HotCosta.

Fine Art America.

Co-operation Ireland

January 26th, 2011

The Gala Legal Dinner in the Dorchester Hotel, London next April will offer one of my paintings to help raise funds for this worthy cause – Co-operation Ireland.

A Flower given to my Daughter

Co-operation Ireland is the leading peace-building charity on the island of Ireland. Our mission is to ‘advance mutual understanding and respect by promoting practical co-operation between the people of Northern Ireland and of the Republic of Ireland‘. Our programmes involve linking groups in the following areas and sectors:

  • Schools and universities
  • Youth and community groups
  • Local authorities
  • Media
  • Local and central government
  • Businesses and business networking/training organisations

Since it was established in 1979, Co-operation Ireland has created opportunities for groups from the two main religious communities in Northern Ireland and from both sides of the border to come together so they can learn about each other’s traditions and cultural backgrounds in order to help build a society which is based on tolerance and acceptance of cultural difference. Co-operation Ireland is experienced in

  • Breaking down sectarianism and racism
  • Encouraging integration of communities
  • Delivering funding programmes, which encourage the creation of vibrant societies
  • Developing bespoke peace and reconciliation programmes for groups and organisations based in other conflict zones around the world
  • Organisation and management of events, conferences and fundraising challenges, which promote community engagement

A Flower given to my Daughter

A poem by James Joyce.

A painting interpretation by Roger Cummiskey painted in watercolor on Indian hand made paper. c. 28 x 23 cms. One only, original.

Ref: P128

Poems of James Joyce

Shakespeare and Co., Paris, published Pomes Penyeach, by James Joyce, in 1927.

An American, Sylvia Beach, who was a patron of Joyce, owned this publishing business and bookshop in Paris. She was the first publisher of Ulysses in 1922.

Joyce also published 36 short poems entitled Chamber Music.

I have painted a series of James Joyce’s Poems in watercolours using waterproof ink on hand made Indian paper. Each painting is given its attributable date of the poems composition.

  • Title: A Flower given to my Daughter
  • Artist: Roger Cummiskey
  • Copyright:©rogercummiskey
  • Size: 28 x 23 cm (unframed)
  • Medium: Watercolour and permanent Ink
  • Ground: Paper
  • My web: www.rogercummiskey.com
  • Notes: - see above.
  • Exhibited: galeria LUCIA, Fuengirola, 2009.  Mirlo Blanco, Mijas Pueblo 2010.

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics

January 23rd, 2011

It was a pleasure to speak to you just now about using one of your Cervantes images on the cover of my book with the University of Toronto Press.

I think that of all those other images out there there are so very many cliches.  I was drawn to yours by the pattern, the repetition with slight difference, and a sense that you’re a literarte man as well as an artist!

“And so, to sum it all up, I perceive everything I say as absolutely true, and deficient in nothing whatever, and paint it all in my mind exactly as I want it to be.”
Volume 1, Chapter 25, pg. 157.  Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes.

Background image by Roger Cummiskey.

Don Quijote the pluralist - Roger Cummiskey


Buy a print the same size as the original.

Art Prints

Anthony J. Cascardi,

Director :: Townsend Center for the Humanities;

Professor :: Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, Spanish; U.C. Berkeley.

URL:  http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/
URL:  http://ajcascardi.org

Ph.D., Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures, with distinction, 1980
M.A.,   Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures, 1977
B.A,     Princeton University, summa cum laude, 1975

BOOKS

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics (in press)

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics” takes up a set of deeply-rooted questions regarding literature and politics in relation to one of the pillars the European literature:  Don Quixote.

Bookended by Machiavelli and Hobbes, and centrally engaging Plato’s Republic, Cervantes’ novel is fundamentally involved in assessing the place of literature within the state.  Cervantes explores the limits of the possible languages for speaking about politics, implicitly responding to the frankness of Machiavelli ‘s discourse about rulership in the new state and offering literature as an alternative to Hobbes’ and Bacon’s “science of politics.”  At the same time, Cervantes responds to a specific set of historical conditions surrounding the political imagination of the early modern nation and its empire.  These were conditions in which nearly all forms of public speech were constrained, and in which literature provided an opportunity for speaking the truth about politics without speaking about politics directly.

The book provides a thorough reading of Don Quixote as well as a wide-ranging and scholarly treatment of Cervantes’ relationship to his many early modern predecessors, including humanists and rhetoricians.  It deals with the practical roots of political theory in travel writing, and the legacy in Cervantes of classical political questions as engaged by Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero.  The book also makes a broader argument defining the potential role of literature in the discourse of politics.

UPDATE May 06th 2011.

Dear Colleagues,

Chancellor Birgeneau and I are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Anthony Cascardi as the new Dean of Arts and Humanities, effective July 1, 2011.

Tony holds appointments in the departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, and Rhetoric.  Besides being a respected scholar, he also has extensive campus leadership and administrative experience.  He has chaired two departments, Comparative Literature and Rhetoric, and was Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities in 2005-06.   He is currently the Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities.

Tony’s record of scholarship also makes him eminently qualified for the job of Dean of Arts and Humanities.  He has produced a substantial body of work in his primary field of Golden-Age Spanish literature, and he has been highly productive as well in the field of philosophical aesthetics, especially twentieth-century European aesthetic theory, and in narrative theory.  In addition to literature and philosophy, he has published on painting and film.

Tony has a deep understanding of the needs and ambitions of the faculty, staff, and students, and has shown himself to be a creative and successful leader.  He has earned the trust of the administration and the respect and admiration of his colleagues.

Please join us in congratulating Tony on his new appointment and in thanking him for his service to the University.

Sincerely,

George Breslauer
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

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.