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Raised with the art
of photography all around,
Regina learned to see the world differently,
When her father, a professional photographer,
gave her a camera, she gained the power to
frame and choose images according to her
notion of the world. When her father took Regina
and her sister to museums, the artist, with her
characteristic quirkiness and deep sense of
nuance, came away from these houses of art
impressed most with their ambiance and silence.
Thus, when it was time for her to move with her
husband from Barcelona and her successful
graphic design business to a small village on the
northern Mediterranean coast of Spain to raise
their daughter she was ready to create her
highly acclaimed collage paintings.
Regina Saura draws as if she sees like a child.
Her scribbles and shapes are free of adult self-
consciousness. The lines are not crude, but they
rise from a rudimentary and more accessible
place, as if a child interpreted them before
convention and technique got in the way. The
artist uses bright, primary and secondary colors
that bring to mind Post- impressionist painters
Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy's palettes in their
ability to create harmonious tension. She also
likes orange, a color that infuses her collages with
warmth and energy, making her work a vibrant
rendition of Georges Braque's cubist still lifes.
The objects often found in Regina's works form
part of a personal iconography, symbols of her
life experiences. With her visceral reaction to
real-life objects and calculated representation
of space, the artist makes the familiar seem
unexpected and new. Her work is charged
with emotion and executed with intellectual
determination, stimulated mind and spirit with
the unimagined and the impossible.
Regina's mixed-media paintings are represented
in public and private collections throughout
Europe, the US and Japan, including the St.
Petersburg Museum in Moscow. The artist is also
an accomplished muralist, receiving prestigious
public murals in her native Spain.
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