Art has been my life.  I have been a member of the art community of Eastern Long Island, New York, since graduate school.

In 2004, I moved to a large studio on Coecles Harbor.  It is a remote place within a 2000-acre nature preserve.  This remoteness has influenced my work in its gradual simplification to color and form alone.  Looking out to water and sky I went from seeing the subject as composition such as in a seascape, to the color as subject and composition. 

In my 2009 paintings nothing is depicted. The grid alone holds the divisions of space and color.  I use complex layering in oil pigments with encaustic to develop rich vibrating texture of color and light.   Through color and patterning, I invite the viewer in to, or perhaps to touch the paintings.

 

"Regan's color palette achieves both remarkable expressiveness and expansiveness that is quite exhilarating."  New York Times Review 2007