ARTWALKER Artist Biography

Regina Fernandes

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. She works with oil, watercolour, coloured pencil, pastel and acrylics.

Exhibitions: In the UK: regular mixed and solo shows at Hanover Fine Arts,Edinburgh since 1991. The Laing Art Competition, Talbot Rice Gallery, and selected for the Mall Galleries, London 1995. Mixed shows at The Leith Gallery, and Gallery 41. Westminster Galleries, London "Britain's Painters'91".- Retrospective at Carlyles Café in 1998, Edinburgh. In Brazil: a solo exhibition sponsored by the newspaper "Agora" (Alem Paraiba, MG) and two mixed shows sponsored by the Alem Paraiba Cultural Foundation. Works at Performance Gallery in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro. Regina Fernandes has paintings in private collections in UK, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Canada, USA, Mexico and Japan.