Manuel Ruiz

COSTA MAGAZINE October 1994 ART  RUIZ OPENS NEW GALLERY IN PUERTO BANUS SPONTANEITY, says Manuel Muñoz Ruiz , is what his art is about. At his new gallery in Puerto Banus, he’ll execute a painting on commission, delivered within the hour. While there’s no obligation to buy, when you watch those broad swathes of the palette knife, you can hardly resist the finished work. Ruiz bills himself as a “pioneer in television art”, because he’s painted pictures in front of a TV camera on more than 800 programmes since 1961. He started as a “child prodigy” at age 11. In the new gallery, Ruiz shows, besides his own works, those by his wife Ana Bella and by his two children, Yaiza and Tairo. Yaiza, 3, according to her dad, has “an incredible sense of colour and movement. I don’t touch anything. She knows what she wants when a painting is done.” Art Studio Ruiz is located at Calle Panaderia 2 (in the Orange Square),Marbella.  The new gallery, open seven days ...