Paul Regan

I paint the things I notice when walking my dog from my home in Barnet, next to the last station at the top of the Northern Line and just inside the top of the M25 motorway. It is where the city ends and the countryside begins. I see it as 'The edge of London'.

I am most interested in how light effects the way we respond emotionally to a place. I like to walk and observe at the end of the day, when the world appears in shapes of light and dark and much of the detail we are familiar with in the day becomes hidden in the shadows. My paintings rarely include figures. They reveal places visited when everyone is somewhere else.

At the end of 2017 I had an exhibition of paintings at the Cass Art Space in Islington entitled ’Suburban Nights’. The series explored the deserted and dimly lit North London suburbs at night-time, with subjects ranging from parks and gardens to building material on driveways. Art critic, Estelle Lovett, described me on the BBC as a 'master of light, an extraordinary skill and an extraordinary eye. He's like an owl’.

In 2018 I started exploring the other side of the M25, leaving the suburban streets and entering the fields, muddy tracks and country roads of Hertfordshire; reminiscent of the South Oxford...

BA (Hons) Illustration UWE Bristol and PGCE Cert. Art and Design Education UCL London

2019

'In The Studio', RWS Group Show, Bankside Gallery London

Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London

2018

ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London

The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London

Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London

Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London

2017

ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries

Solo Show at Cass Art Islington

London Group Open, Cello Factory

Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery ('The Artist' Prize)

ArtRooms, Melia White House, London

2016

National Open Art Competition - Mercers Hall, London (Cass Art Solo Show Award)

Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition - Bankside Gallery, London (Royal Watercolour Society Award)

Art Gemini - Asia House, London (first prize).

Columbia Threadneedle Prize - Mall Galleries, London

Columbia Threadneedle Prize - Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - London

New English Art Club Open - Mall Galleries, London

ING Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries, London

2015

NLAN Group Show - The Strand Gallery

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - London

2014

NLAN Group Show - Camden Image Gallery

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