Author: Paul Regan

Artwork produced by Wednesday students.

Painting and Drawing ClassesWednesdays 10.15am – 12.30pm and 1pm – 3.15pm1a Cadbury Close, Whetstone N20 9BD Send me an email to enquire. I teach two mixed ability painting classes each Wednesdays during term time. The content of each twelve week term is divided into two types of teaching: Weeks 1-3 and 7-9 are lively, fast…
Who are the Studio Fridays Artists?

If you visited my studio recently for the Studio Fridays Art Fair, you might have thought that the space had always been a gallery. Most of the time however, it’s a vibrant work space where I paint, mentor and teach. For example, every Friday, the studio becomes an industrious work space for up to fourteen…
Christmas themed drawing challenges

I led a fun Christmas themed drawing hour online this morning, so I thought I’d share the exercises here in case you’d like to do something similar with your family and friends this Christmas. All you need is a pile of paper and some pencils. Upgrade to colour pencils if you have them. I’d recommend…
Recent newsletters

I send out email newsletters most weeks, sharing some of the creative things I come across day to day in my world of art and art education. If you’d like to receive them, you can sign up here. Recent newsletters: 6th December29th November22nd November15th November
Major exhibitions in London over Christmas and into the New Year

Royal Academy of ArtsEnds 16.2Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael Opens 28.1Brazil! Brazil! The birth of Modernism National GalleryVan Gogh: Poets and LoversUntil 19.1 Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 – 1350Opens 8.3 Courtauld GalleryGoya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart CollectionOpens 14.2 National Portrait GalleryFrancis Bacon: Human PresenceUntil 19.1 Edvard Munch PortraitsOpens 13.3 Barbican GalleryThe Imaginary…
Open painting competition deadlines coming up

If you like the idea of having your work on show in a London gallery, the Royal Watercolour Society are now taking submissions for their annual RWS Open exhibition, to be held at the Bankside Gallery. If you make contemporary paintings on paper using water-based media, you might like to have a go at entering.…
Ikon Gallery – Friends In Love And War.

A quick question to the gallery assistant regarding where might be the best place to start the exhibition turned into a much appreciated five minute introduction to their favourite piece from the show. Turner Prize nominee (probably soon to be the winner) Delaine Le Bas’s, ’What We Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Us?’ was, we were…
Studio Fridays Art Fair 2024

30th October – 3rd November 2024 Congratulations to all 17 of my hugely talented Studio Fridays mentees for transforming the studio into an amazing art fair last week. It was a huge success, and their work looked absolutely fantastic! Private View
Kate Wilson’s Total Rubbish

Kate Wilson’s Total Rubbish exhibition at the Morley Gallery is ….. really good! If you are in the Waterloo area of London between now and November 21st, I highly recommend that you go and see it. I particularly liked her close up paintings of single pieces of found rubbish; the crumpled plastic coffee lid, a…
Talking Things

Leslie Bunch and Roland HicksBlyth Gallery, level 5, Sherfield Building Campus: South Kensington Campus10am-5pm dailyUntil 31/10/24 Incredibly detailed paintings that require visitors to spend time with, or they might miss something! Not everything is as it first seems.