Description
53rd Annual Mark Twain Library Art Show
Artist’s Bio:
Regan’s work explores the seams, cracks and openings of landscapes, how surfaces reveal the passage of time, the movements of weather, processes of aging and the forces that move beneath and shape surfaces. Themes of surrender and the interchange between will, intuition and nature are constant for her, as is the play between dynamic movement and stillness.
Regan’s approach to painting is both intuitive and meticulously structured: a physical, improvisational conversation between mind and materials. Acrylics build texture and history; oils offer depth and luminosity. She moves between sculpting and dissolving, assembling and dismantling. The process becomes a palimpsest, a record of time spent in deep conversation—a seam that reveals life beneath the skin, a rhythm of impressions, a window into the interiority of experience. She is always inspired by the strange, refreshingly absurd intelligence of the dreamworld.
Regan seeks to create work that is alive—dynamic, unself-conscious and wild; that whispers metaphors and suggests interiority without over-explaining; that communicates the humor, reverence and chaos inherent in the creative practice. Each piece is a threshold: a place to dwell in questions, to remain within the eye of the storm and to witness the unfolding of something larger than the self.
