Author: Paul Regan

Gently Out of Time: Paintings

Post last edited on 28th April 2026 In 2021 I made a photobook titled ‘Gently Out of Time’ and had just one coffee table-sized copy printed. It contained over fifty pairs of photographs selected from the 17000 stored on my laptop and phone. Each pair of photographs were chosen because, for one reason or another,…
Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize 2026

Who will win this year’s Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize? It’s a very strong line up. For me, it’s between the challenging, passionate, prison photographs of Jane Evelyn Atwood, and the surreal, quirky, AI photographs of Weronika Gesicka. I’m going for Gesicka. Head to the Photographers Gallery to choose your winner before the £30K prize…
Some Travel Photographs: India

Fifteen nights travelling in India. As well as observing the art, design and architecture from the streets, and popping into small commercial galleries along the way, we also visited the National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Red Fort and Galleries in Delhi, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Capitol Complex and the Le Corbusier…
2026 Newsletters so far….

I send out email newsletters each week during term time, sharing some of the creative things I come across day to day in my world of art and art education. You can read each of them here soon after they’re sent, but if you’d like to receive them hot off the press each week to…
Artwork by Spring 2026 students

We’ve come to the end of yet another lovely term of teaching on Wednesdays, where students of all abilities come to enjoy the studio, and to learn more about painting and drawing. Whereas half of the sessions each term are given to teacher led workshops, challenging students outside of their comfort zones, the other half…
Major exhibitions in London: On now or coming soon….

Royal Academy of Arts Rose WylieUntil 19/4 Tate Modern Nigerian ModernismUntil 10/5 Theatre PicassoUntil 12/4 Tracey Emin: A Second LifeUntil 31/8 Tate Britain Turner and ConstableUntil 12/4 Hurvin Anderson 26/3 – 23/8 National Gallery Wright of Derby: From the ShadowsUntil 10/5 National Portrait Gallery Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting12/2-4/5 Courtauld Gallery Seurat and the Sea13/2-17/5…
Open calls and competitions for artists

Updated on: 10.3.26 (Scroll down for the list of open calls) Being part of an exhibition where your work has been selected by judges, hung nicely, and lit on a crisp gallery wall can feel very special. It’s a chance to get your work noticed, meet other artists, take some nice photos to share on…
Limited Print Run: Gently Out Of Time (2nd Edition)

AI version of front cover After five years, I’ve finally finished making my photobook, ‘Gently Out Of Time’. The book arrived as a result of revisiting and rearranging more than twenty years of photographs stored on my phone and laptop. It’s a record of the recurring visual motifs and subjects that catch my eye every…
Memory

Memory is a strange thing isn’t it? Back in November I painted this tree, from a photograph I had taken at 9.20am on Thursday 12th December 2013. When I was painting it, I thought I was painting the tree I used to walk past on the way to the primary school my children went to…
Spring

I recently purchased a few books from the Tate Shop sale. One of them was this nice little collection of artworks on the theme of Spring. It’s divided into six sections: Into the Landscape, In the Garden, Agriculture, Rebirth, Blossoms and Blooms, and Uprising. If you were to make an artwork based on one of…