Regina Quinn
About Regina
Regina B Quinn, an award-winning encaustic artist who resides in the Northern Catskill Mountains of New York, has been part of the Painting with Fire faculty since its inception. While her career encompasses painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking, and theatrical set design, Regina now focuses on creating works in encaustics combined with oils, India inks and watercolors. She teaches encaustic painting internationally and in-person at the Woodstock School of Art. Her work is included in numerous private collections and the permanent collections of the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn and the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe.
Regina is represented by the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York, and she serves as the President of International Encaustic Artists.
About her work she writes:
Rooted in my deep connection to the natural world, my encaustic paintings are an expression of my love and sense of stewardship for the fragile balance that allows life to thrive on this planet. My works are primarily abstracted landscapes suspended at the edges of day between darkness and light.
Even as the darkness enshrouds, physically and metaphorically, it is pierced by glimmers of light—often unexpected light. That piercing of the darkness is what drives me to create my paintings
You can view Regina’s work at:
www.reginabquinn.net
www.instagram.com/ginabq
www.facebook.com/reginabernadette.quinn.5
Class Details
A Sense of Place: Abstract Landscapes in Encaustics & Oils
The liminal space between night and day, the visceral tension of an impending storm—moments when even the most familiar places in our natural surroundings take on a sense of mystery—these will serve as our starting points as we explore the use of encaustics and oils to evoke a sense of place.
During this session, we will explore what it is about a certain place at a certain time that lingers in our senses and flickers in our mind’s eye and how to evoke that sense of place in an abstract encaustic landscape painting.
We’ll build up and scrape back layers of encaustics—processes akin to an archaeological dig, not unlike the experience of bringing an elusive, partially-remembered visual memory of place back into focus.
Ephemerality: Encaustics and Oils on Paper
Working on a wide variety of absorbent papers, Regina will demonstrate techniques painting and printmaking techniques she uses to express the theme of ephemerality in her works on paper that combine encaustics with oil Pigment Sticks and tube paints.
