paulregan.studio
I’m Paul Regan. I paint, mentor and teach from my studio in Whetstone, North London. As a painter, I’m a member of the Royal Watercolour Society, exhibiting mostly in London. As a mentor, I founded Studio Fridays in 2016 and continue to support new and emerging artists each week, and as a teacher, after running Insight School of Art for 23 years, I now run a couple of weekly classes for adults independently.
I share some of the things I’ve learnt about art and art education in the blog and learning sections of this website. If you sign up for newsletters, you’ll be first to know when they have been updated.
Painter
I’m interested in the relationship between photographs and memory, and paint to reconnect with the fragments of time on my photo stream. Feel free to contact me for a list of works available for purchase or to discuss exhibition opportunities.
Exhibitions
Regular exhibitor with the Royal Watercolour Society
(Associate Member 2019 / Full member 2021)
2024
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – London
The Royal Watercolour Society – Linden Hall Studio
2023
London Group Open 2023 – Copeland Gallery
RWS NOW – Whitcomb Street Gallery
Chelsea Physic Garden: 350 Years in Paint and Print
Art Gemini Prize – Judge
New Wave – Judge
2022
ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries, London
RWS Charity Auction – Whitcomb Street Gallery
2021
Summer Exhibition – Green and Stone Gallery
2020
Sunday Times Watercolour 2020 – Willis Museum and the Mall Galleries
2019
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – London
At The Edge Of Things – Martin Fidler and Paul Regan, Gallery 54, London
Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition – Bankside Gallery, London
2018
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London
2017
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries
Solo Show at Cass Art Islington
London Group Open, Cello Factory
Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery (‘The Artist’ Prize)
ArtRooms, Melia White House, London
2016
National Open Art Competition – Mercers Hall, London (Cass Art Solo Show Award)
Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition – Bankside Gallery, London (Royal Watercolour Society Award)
Art Gemini – Asia House, London (first prize).
Columbia Threadneedle Prize – Mall Galleries, London
Columbia Threadneedle Prize – Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – London
New English Art Club Open – Mall Galleries, London
ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries, London
2015
NLAN Group Show – The Strand Gallery
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – London
2014
NLAN Group Show – Camden Image Gallery
2013
Critics Secrets – Mall Galleries, London (Nominated by Estelle Lovett)
ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries, London (Invited artist)
2012
ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries, London (Winner: London Regional Award)
Threadneedle Prize – Mall Galleries, London
Cork Street Open, London
Show Me The Monet, BBC and Mall Galleries, London
30x40cm Acrylic on paper
ING Discerning Eye 2022
30x40cm Acrylic on paper
ING Discerning Eye 2022
29x40cm Acrylic on paper
Bankside Gallery
30x40cm Oil on board
RA Summer Exhibition 2024
ING Discerning Eye 2018
38x56cm Acrylic on paper
RA Summer Exhibition 2019
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2018
Private collection
46x61cm Oil on board
66x100cm Oil on canvas
London Group Open 2017
Private collection
34x57cm Acrylic on paper
Bankside Gallery
28x38cm Acrylic on paper
Bankside Gallery
Private collection
61x92cm Oil on board
London Group Open 2023
Mentor
Studio Fridays are the weekly studio practice and mentoring days I run for new and emerging artists. I also hold small group mentoring sessions in person and over Zoom. In the short film below, Studio Fridays artists talk about how I have been able to help them move their practice forward.
Teacher
“All those years ago, during my first year at art school, I would arrive each morning not knowing what was in store for me, but ready to take part in whatever challenge had been planned. Then, at the end of the day, I would walk home, enriched with new skills and knowledge, exhausted but elated.
Those days proved to be some of the best learning experiences I would have, and became the catalyst for what I aim to provide every time I teach.”
Learning Resources
The learning resources on this site were produced by myself and Robert Verrill to share with students at Insight School of Art, and to spark ideas and conversations between teachers when lesson planning. The full archive will be gradually uploaded over the next few years.
Studio playlist
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