Published: Wednesday, 25th August, 2010 5:00pm

Exhibitions continue at Bluewall Gallery

A self portrait by Derek Cummins.

Observations opens at Bluewall Gallery on Saturday, September 4, (reception at 3pm-5pm) and runs until Wednesday, September 29.

In the meanwhile, Tales from the Road - featuring the work of Heike Heilig, Wendy Dison, Debbie Godsell, Peter McMorris, Eimear Jean McCormack and Paul La Rocque - continues at Bluewall gallery until Wednesday, September 1.

Tales from the Road is a rich and well-crafted collection of printed works by six members of Cork Printmakers. A wide range of printmaking techniques reveals imagery that is collectively suffused with broad notions of journeying, environment and culture.

The subsequent exhibition, Observations, gathers together the work of three painters, Priscilla Gorman, Margot Quinn and Derek Cummins, each of whose practice is concerned with being and seeing. Through the act of painting, these artists attempt to communicate experiences of living, within the body, within the world.

"Looking at their work, one can sense the invisible film that separates each of us, from each other and from our surroundings," comments gallery director, Joe Keenan.

The artists

Margot Quinn was born in Dublin in 1958 and grew up in Longford town. She works full-time as a Visual Artist and divides her time between Clones and London. She describes her work as a sideways look at ordinary life the content of which is influenced by her immediate environment both physically and emotionally. She studied fine art as a mature student at The Cass School of Art, London Metropolitan University and was awarded a BA(Hons) degree in fine art in 1995.

Derek Cummins was born in Dublin in 1979, he graduated from NCAD in 2002 with an Honours Degree in Fine Art/Painting. His work ranges from traditional realism to surreal avant-garde oddness and includes realistic portraits and landscapes. A combination of confusion, realism, irony and humor is at the core of his work.

Priscilla Gorman is a native of Sligo. She studied art at Sligo IT and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Her work originates in the physical environment. The painting itself becomes the subject, as the physicality of the paint on the picture plane attempts to make visible something of the experience, through colour, texture and space.

• Bluewall Gallery, Corracanvy, Cavan; telephone 049-4361627 or 086-2902493, email bluewallgallery@gmail.com or see www.bluewallgallery.com. Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 11am-5.30pm and Sunday 2.30pm-5.30pm.