Regina Quinn

After nearly three decades in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, Regina now lives in New York’s Northern Catskills. A New York City native, she has spent her adult life up in the mountains which are a continuous source of inspiration for her work.  Her paintings are rooted in her deep connection to the natural world and sense of stewardship for the fragile balance that allows life to exist and thrive on this planet.

Regina’s art career encompasses painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking, and theatrical painting. About 10 years ago, she was drawn to encaustics by their luminosity and subtlety, and once she started working in wax, she knew that encaustic was her medium—one that could give voice to her aesthetic, her sensibility, and her quiet personality. She now works almost exclusively in mixed media encaustics and shares her process through workshops, internationally.

Regina holds a Special Studies in Fine Arts degree from Trinity College where she received the Peyser Art Award, first prize and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Vermont. Regina teaches encaustic workshops internationally and serves on the Board of Directors of International Encaustic Artists. Her encaustic paintings, for which she has received numerous awards including the 2020 Faber Birren National Color Award, the Cooperstown Art Association’s Essential Art 2021 Grand Prize, and the Woodstock Art Association and Museum’s New Visions 2021 Award, have been displayed in galleries, art centers and museums across the United States and are included in the permanent collections of the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, in Brooklyn, NY, and the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe, NM.

Website: reginabquinn.net

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Classes with Regina Quinn

Of Darkness and Light

Light pierces darkness, unfurling our world of perceived color… How can we bring a sense of the compelling, radiant edges of day, veiled in mystery, into our paintings?

Our focus will be on creating abstracted, luminous landscapes. We’ll touch on a bit of the physics of light and color and how that knowledge can inform the creation of luminous encaustic mixed media paintings. We’ll go from both directions - starting with a light, bright background and building up the contrasting dark layers, as well as starting from a dark background and building layers of light.

Dramatic Skies

The sky at dawn, at sunset, and as storms approach and recede are often full of such glorious drama… How can we convey a natural sense of the sky given the time of day and unique atmospheric conditions?

In this session we’ll touch on some of the physics of light and how it impacts our sense of sky and cloud color at different times of day, through different atmospheric conditions. We’ll then explore a variety of ways to convey that drama using encaustics, oils, watercolor and India ink