The Casa de Las Tejerinas shows the work of painters Jesús Emilio Fernández and Celso Peñas.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on August 12, at 6:00 p.m., and can be visited until August 28, with free access.

The Estepona Town Hall informs that Room 1 of the Casa de Las Tejerinas will host from August 12 to 28 a collective exhibition of the artists Jesús Emilio Fernández and Celso Peñas, representatives of the ‘Pintores Sampedreños’, born as part of the El Trapiche Cultural Center of San Pedro Alcántara.

In the exhibition you can appreciate the chromatic light and the personal color of the landscapes of the artist Jesús Emilio Fernández Sánchez, as well as the works of Celso Peñas, a professor from Valladolid who lives in San Pedro Alcántara. Under the title ‘Mirada Rota’, the artist invites us to look inside the face of the human being.

The exhibition, which consists of a total of thirty-five pictorial works, will be inaugurated on August 12, at 18:00 hours, and can be visited until August 28 from Tuesday to Friday, from 09:00 to 20:00 hours, and Saturdays from 09:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 20:00 hours, with free access.

Jesús Emilio Fernández was born in a village of Burgos, Melgar de Fernamental, in 1954. In the early years of school and fed the awakening of his creative and artistic restlessness. He studied Technical Drawing at the Escuela de Maestría Industrial de Burgos. In the world of Graphic Arts, he developed his apprenticeship and career as a draftsman with printing in different media and companies in Burgos and Madrid. During this stage, he carried out commissions and personal works.

Currently, already retired, he lives in San Pedro Alcántara, where he was able to access the classes of Painting and Sculpture in Clay in the classrooms of the Cultural Center El Trapiche, since 2021.

Throughout his artistic career he has been inspired by artists such as Marceliano Santamaría, Sorolla, or Antonio López, and others such as Francisco Espinoza Dueñas, in clay sculpture. His pictorial works range from nibs and charcoal, to pastel and oil, the technique with which he currently works. On the other hand, his sculptures, although sometimes figurative, are more inclined to the abstract of Espinoza’s school.

He has participated in group exhibitions in Burgos and Alcalá de Henares and, in recent years, has participated in various exhibitions in the Trapiche hall and in the hall of La Plaza de La Libertad in San Pedro Alcántara. The last one, in the College of Dentists of Malaga.

Celso Vinicio Peñas Martínez (Valladolid, 1955) is a retired primary school teacher and vocational painter. For five years he has been a student of painting at the School of Art and Culture of San Pedro Alcántara.

San Pedro Alcántara, taught by Juan Antonio Pérez López, and was also a student, for four years, of the artist Pedro Ramírez, a painter based in that town, now deceased.

He has followed painting classes with Gabrielle Ange de (Art Gallery) 2019 and watercolor with teachers Alfonso Hervás Cárdenas and José Miguel Andrés Gutiérrez in 2021-22. His works are made almost exclusively in oil and in a classical style. The themes he has chosen, although there are several: ethnic groups, flamenco, nudes, portraits, pandemic, horses, flowers…, most of them are focused on the female human face; he has even made portraits on commission.

He has participated, along with other colleagues, in some end-of-course exhibitions at the Trapiche de Guadaiza Cultural Center and in the exhibition hall of the Plaza de la Libertad, in San Pedro.

In 2021 he participated in the Third International Art Festival of Marbella, (Festiarte), and last year he also exhibited at the Casa de Las Tejerinas in Estepona.

In 2022 he also took part in an exhibition at the San Clemente Cultural Center in Toledo, along with the Culminarte collective, in honor of Federico García Lorca and, along with other artists, in the Contemporary Art Exhibition at the Meliá Don Pepe Hotel, Marbella. He has also painted a mural in the Plaza de la Libertad in San Pedro, about Fine Arts.