Biography

Regina Fernandes is Brazilian and has been living in Edinburgh since 1989. She is largely self-taught and has worked professionally in Brazil as an illustrator and in painted textiles. She has also designed and illustrated several books, outstanding among which is a limited edition of Lewis Carol's The Hunting of the Snark. Her career has been developing under the combined influences of her professional experiences as a designer/illustrator and her thoughtful progress as an independent artist. Most of her work is figurative and questions of light and shadow are ever present. When she paints interiors and still life, what she paints are inscapes and still lights.

Solo Exhibitions

1998 Retrospective. Carlyles Cafe - Edinburgh.
1986 Faces. Show sponsored by the newspaper "Agora" - Alem Paraiba, MG - Brazil.

Selected Group

April 1993,
July 1994 and 1995,
November 1997,
November 1998: Three artists on show, Hanover Fine Arts - Edinburgh

Mixed Exhibitions

Regular shows since 1991: "Mountains and remote places", Small paintings for Christmas", "Cats and other animals" and "Artists new to the Gallery" - Hanover Fine Arts Edinburgh.

2000 Valentine's. The Leith Gallery - Edinburgh
1999 Christmas Show. Gallery 41 - Edinburgh
1999 Scottish Landscape. The Leith Gallery - Edinburgh
1999 Foreign Landscape. The Leith Gallery - Edinburgh
1999 Christmas Show. The Leith Gallery - Edinburgh
1995 The Mall Galleries - London
1995 The Laing Art Competition, Talbot Rice Gallery - Edinburgh
1991 "Britain's Painters'91", Westminster Galleries - London
1989 Show sponsored by the Alem Paraiba Cultural Foundation - Brazil
1988 Performance Gallery in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
1987 Show sponsored by the Alem Paraiba Cultural Foundation - Brazil

Awards Sime Malloch Award, Best in Show

Collection Work in private collections in UK, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Canada, USA, Mexico and Japan.