Regina Lyubavnaya is a russian born artist whose first interest in painting was sparked by her visits with her grandparents to the national museum of art in moscow. It is among these treasures that she first experienced a sweet addiction to the beauty and mystery of painting, and it is Here that the painterly realism of the old masters captivated her. Traces of rembrandt's glowing light, rebera's theatrical drama and Velazquez's bare simplicity can be seen in all of her exceptional oils.
Regina’s educational path first led her from the Moscow Institute of Arts and Crafts in Russia, to the pasadena art center of design in california where she received her degree. Following this, she studied at the acadamy of art in florence italy and finally on to the student league of new york with acclaimed artist, David leffel. Today she is living and working in venice, california.
Regina paints because "there is nothing like being in a state of meditation, translating reality into the language of paint". As an artist, she doesn't just copy what she sees, she creates her own reality, Most of her still-life and landscape work is a radiant combinationof the real and the imaginary.
Her vision is filtered through sensitivity to magical light; this light is the soul of her paintings. In her work, she seeks a balance between traditional realism and expressive abstraction, images are not merely illustrations but are sculptures of paint; The paintings are about the surface as much as the subject matter. The richness of her paint, the brilliance of her colors and the expressiveness of her brushstrokes all work together to create a timeless illusion of her reality.
Regina's art has a traditional painterly feel found in the old masters of Europe. Whether it is still-lifes, landscapes, or portraits, Regina sees more with her brush than most with their eyes; And then expertly reveals this secret and luminous world to us, the viewer.