Robert Roane Beard

Fly Art Limited following and helping fine artists with Travel

2011-09-05T16:40:00.000-04:00

Fly Art Limited is a Private Foundation based in New York devoted to assisting fine artist, architects and designers with travel costs associated with International travel for the furthering of their work, based on financial need, and as funding allows.

Robert Roane Beard gallery

2011-07-27T21:35:00.000-04:00

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Newly listed original watercolor on hand made paper
Irish landscape #31
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Bobby Beard will be in residence at Cill Rialaig Project in June 2011

2011-06-01T00:27:00.000-04:00

I am so looking forward to this stay at Cill Rialaig

I have tons of work to do...

Watercolor from residency at Cill Rialaig in 2009

the view from the cottages at Cill Rialaig

"Thinking of You," a meditation on friends lost to AIDS

2011-04-15T01:14:00.000-04:00

"Thinking of You," a meditation on friends lost to AIDS,

which appeared in Milan, Turin, and New York to unanimous critical acclaim.

Owl fixation

2011-02-20T00:10:00.000-05:00

Artist, Bobby Beard to be working at Cill Rialaig

2010-06-13T15:51:00.001-04:00

New York Artist, Robert Roane Beard, will be working in Ireland, at the astounding Cill Rialaig Artist Project Over looking the Atlantic in Co Kerry.

See below some of the history and the location.

This will be Mr. Beard's second stint at the colony.

CILL RIALAIG - Bolus Head, Co. Kerry, Ireland

Cill Rialig encompases a pre-famine village which is situated on the side of the mountain overlooking Ballinskelligs. Some of the houses have been renovated and are used to house travelling artisans from all four corners of the globe.

Cill Rialaig is a fascinating as well as a beautiful place and it’s well worth telling you something about the project. Cill Rialaig Artists Project was set up by publisher Noelle Campbell-Sharpe, as an artist’s retreat on the remote Bolus Head peninsula in County Kerry. It is an old settlement, that suffered large population losses during the famine and gradually became completely abandoned during the 1960s and 70s. It has now been beautifully brought back to life with great sensitivity, using traditional materials and maintaining the dimensions of the vernacular architecture. Unlike so many others, this is the kind of development that enhances the very reason people visit; the landscape. Now all kinds of artists, poets, writers and craftspeople come from all over the world to gain inspiration from the surroundings and solitude. Artists are encouraged to donate artwork to the Project to help with the upkeep.

Each cottage is clad in local stone, each with either a thatch or slate roof. The interiors are well designed, with comfortable sleeping quarters in a half-loft, a separate kitchen and an open plan dining/sitting room. At one end of each cottage there is a ‘lean-to’; this is the roomy studio space, a glass roof maximizing the available light.

This Gaeltacht area is rich in history and archaeological sites litter the landscape. There are ancient standing stones on the hill above the settlement and also early Christian remains such as monastic cells and slab crosses. The great seanchai, Sean O Connaill who spoke only Irish, lived in Cill Rialaig all his life, eking out a living as a smallholder farmer and fisherman. Although he never went to school and could not write, he had a prodigious memory and a great store of heroic tales, proverbs and riddles. His folklore was eventually collected by the Folklore Commission and published in 1964.

For painters, the light in this area is superb. Looking out from the houses, the panorama of the bay is an ever-changing tableau, where the clouds cast fleeting shadows onto the ocean’s surface. The artist has to work quickly to capture the ever-changing complexion of the scenery; the familiar aphorism about Ireland’s climate having “four seasons in one day” is amplified down here and should be counted in minutes. The aspect of the village is seaward, with a view of a menagerie of islands (The Bull, The Cow and The Calf) and these provide excellent material for sketching, but be prepared -the wind can work against the unprepared may find themselves chasing their work down the road! Working as freelancers we can often be isolated, so it was interesting to see others doing their stuff; all with very different approaches. Here is an opportunity to take a turn off the familiar path and work on projects that are mostly kept dormant due to the pressure of business. It’s an opportunity to explore different avenues or even to improve existing techniques.

The Origin Gallery

83 Harcourt Street

Dublin 2

And ask for application details.

Beard watercolors at Nicole Fiacco Gallery

2010-02-23T15:28:00.000-05:00

"The Nicole Fiacco Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of abstract paintings and works on paper by Robert Roane Beard, Stephen Courbois, Jeanette Fintz and Enrique Kico Govantes.

Robert Roane Beard will exhibit works from his ongoing Irish Landscape series. The small, jewel-toned watercolor and ink works on paper are an investigation of meandering lines that toy with the abstract shapes that stand-in as alternate ways of seeing air, earth, water and other forms found in nature. Mr Beard recently was awarded a residency at the world renowned artist colony, Cill Rialaig Project in County Kerry, Ireland. Beard has also created installation works, including "Thinking of You," a meditation on friends lost to AIDS, which appeared in Milan, Turin, and New York to unanimous critical acclaim. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Chelsea Arts Club, London; the National Academy of Design, New York and he is currently preparing for a solo exhibition in Dublin, Ireland in 2010. Robert Beard lives in New York and the Hudson Valley."
-Nicole Fiacco

Bobby Beard among artists in "View Four" exhibition at Nichole Fiacco gallery

2010-02-01T00:41:00.000-05:00

Landscape Painter, Robert Roane Beard, is among the four Artist being featured in the exhibition "View Four" At the Nichole Fiacco Gallery, In Hudson, New York.

The exhibition opens to the public on February 20th

with reception from 6 to 8 pm.

The gallery is located at

336 WARREN STREET

HUDSON, NEW YORK

12534

Iris landscape #124

watercolor, pen ink on handmade paper

4" x 6"

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2009-10-18T22:23:00.000-04:00

Irish water colors by Bobby Beard

2009-09-17T12:00:00.001-04:00

small watercolors by Robert Beard

Installation, "Thinking of You"

2009-07-06T10:02:00.007-04:00

This installation, Thinking of You, is still looking for a permanent home in a University Museum, a local Art Center, Library, Public Museum, Private collection.

The artist is delighted to donate the work to the correct organization.

The work was exhibited in Milan, Torino, and Hudson, NY.

It was shown in the artist's, New York studio soon after completion.

It was published in the Italian Journal of Art.

"Thinking of You" is a very moving piece on ones loss of friends do to HIV/AIDS.