Dolores (Leorie) Cummiskey.
Leorie is short for Dolores, my wife.
All images are completed entirely by hand using textile threads on canvas. The number of stitches and the length of time each artwork has taken are displayed.
Explosion of colour. Completed: 06.03.2015. Cross stitch. 29 x 29 cm. This piece took seven months to finish. There are 80,000 stitches. 2015.
BLUE: Cross stitch in blue. This piece took seven months to compete. There are 135,000 stitches. Design by Leorie. 38 x 38 cms. 2014.
CIRCE: This is a cross stitch creation of the image Circe after John Waterhouse and based on Homers Odyssey. 54,000 stitches, over a period of three months. 19 x 39 cms. 2013.
Trajes regionales – Sevilla y Cordoba. Cross stitch by Dolores depicting costumes from two regions in Andalusia, southern Spain. 20 x 56 cm. 54,000 stitches over a period of three months. 2012.
The Kiss: Cross stitch from a painting by Klimt.
146,000 stitches. Six months to complete, 2011. 44 x 44 cm
Exhibited in Helsinki, Finland December 2011.
Paseo a orillas del mar – after Sorolla. 138,500 stitches, 6 months to complete in 2008.
Deers: 82 x 35 cm completed in 2009.
All Woman: 35 x 60 cm. 45,000 stitches completed over 4 months in 2008.
Tower Bridge, London. 36 x 26 cm. 76,000 stitches taking 2 months to complete in 2010.
Lily & Frog: 26 x 38 cms. 75,000 stitches taking 3 months to complete in 2010.
| Pasture – Dehesa | € 450.00 | 27 x 52 |
| Bathing # 3 | € 175.00 | 28 x 28 |
| Bathing # 4 | € 175.00 | 28 x 28 |
