I just finished the second set of thirty-six (three dozen) robes! They are 12″ x 12″ hardboard mounted on cradled hardboard. I am so delighted with them. I feel like making more but I will, instead, clean up the art studio, put away all the unused ribbon and store the paintings in acetate sleeves until I find the perfect place to exhibit them all together.
I am honored to have been selected for this group exhibition at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center (137 East Ave., Rochester, New York 14604). Fire & Form – Encaustic Work From Across New York State is a juried exhibition! My painting is titled “Mustang Dance”. A man I chatted with said it looked like something you would find in an ancient Roman villa.
The reception started at 6:00 PM. Penny and I were the first to arrive. I managed to take these pictures before it got super crowded in there.
I am really impressed with the variations in technique, color, texture and style. It’s a magnificent show!
***From the web-site
Regina B Quinn is an encaustic artist residing in the Northern Catskill Mountains of New York. Regina serves as President of International Encaustic Artists and Director of Grant Initiatives. Her art career encompasses painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking, and theatrical set design; she now focuses on creating works in encaustic mixed-media. She teaches encaustics online and in-person at the Woodstock School of Art and Mulranny Arts in Ireland. Regina is represented by the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, ny. @ginabq
Encaustic, as a medium, is both durable and radiant. It aligns powerfully with both contemporary abstraction and New York’s longstanding landscape traditions. This exhibition aims to demonstrate that vitality and mark the beginning of a defining platform for encaustic artists across New York State.
Three awards have been selected by the juror for excellence in wax media.
Rochester Art Supply (2 awards): Gift Certificates worth $200 each
The R+F Award (1 award): Opaque Color Set and Translucent Color Set with Ampersand boards, valued at $200
Take down is scheduled for September 19, 2026. Paintings can be purchased then collected at the end of the show.
Hours of Operation: Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 5pm / Friday, 12 – 9pm.
Kristen Adamczyk (Brooklyn, NY) @kristen_adamczyk (10), Sarita Kennedy Arden (Pittsford, NY), Gülnar Babayeva (Hudson Valley, NY) @caspianmuse (2), Gwen Bardon (Rhinebeck, NY) @gwenbardon, Bob Barnett (Woodside, NY) @bobbarnettpaint, Mary-Ellen Bertram (Rochester, NY) @maryellenart, Linda Bigness (Camillus, NY) @lbigness, Domenica Brockman (Ithaca, NY) @minimalistabstraction, Phyllis Bryce Ely (Ontario, NY) @pbryceely, Victoria Brzustowicz (Penfield, NY) @creativevictoriab, Ann Marie Buchau (Pulaski, NY) @annbuchauartist, Heather Caufield (Olivebridge, NY), Maureen Church (Rochester, NY) @moutlaw4 (14), Carey Corea (Rochester, NY) @careycoreaart, Pat DeLuca (Rochester, NY) @patdeluca.art, Jackie Doyle (Lakewood, NY) @jackied.art, Marie Dungan (Cooperstown, NY), Connie Ehindero (Rochester, NY) @ehinderoconnie, Alaina Enslen (Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY) (1), Victoria Falco (Rochester, NY) @victoriafalco, Hallie Galligan (Woodstock, NY) (6), Hilary Hart (Cold Spring, NY) (3), Richard Harvey (Rochester, NY) @rcharv, Emily Hill (Lima, NY) @emilyhill.waxwerk (12), Christine Knoblauch (Rochester, NY), Rachel Kouwe (Webster, NY), Mark Lavatelli (Buffalo, NY) @marklava, Rebecca LeFevre (Batavia, NY) @rebeccalefevre.art, Beth Lisk (Watkins Glen, NY) (11), Patrice Maloney (Webster, NY) (4), Melanie Rinn Martinek (Victor, NY), Constance Mauro (Rochester, NY) @constancemauro, Anne B McCune (Hilton, NY) @anne.b.mccune, Tarie Minchak (Rochester, NY) @tarieminchak, Makenzie Morrow (Rush, NY) @makadelic_art (9), Lori Mugnolo (Honeoye Falls, NY), Claire Nigro (Greenport, NY) @clairenigro, Carol O’Brien (Naples, NY) @selkieob, Kseniya Ostrovska (Saratoga Springs, NY) @kseniya_ostrovska_art (5), Andrea Parada (Rochester, NY) @apnderparadaparada_ceramica, Itter Randazzo (Schenectady, NY) @itterrandazzo (13), Lida Riedlinger (Rochester, NY) @lida_riedlinger, Sidonie Merkel Roepke (Rochester, NY) (7), Charles Schweigert (Irondequoit, NY) @schweigertstudio, Julie Jurgens Shea (Rochester, NY) @juliesheaart, Kathleen Speck (Moravia, NY), Kathy Steblen (Fairport, NY), Carolyn Steinkirchner (Rochester, NY), Jacqueline Swaby (Castile, NY) (8), Karen Tashkovski (East Syracuse, NY) @karen_tashkovski,Sherry Tulloch (Churchville, NY), Dana Murray Tyrrell (Niagara Falls, NY) @snackmustard, Deanna Varble (Pittsford, NY) @hensinwellies, Nickolas Viele (Rochester, NY) @nickolas_viele_fine_arts, Sally Wood Winslow (Rochester, NY), Birgitt Wolf Peterson (Prattsburgh, NY) @birgitt_wolf_peterson, Leslie Yolen (Berne, NY) @_leslieyolen, Jessica Young (Hamlin, NY) @jessy.claire.art, Janet Zandy (Rochester, NY)
I am so in love with the way my new exhibition (The Lotus Series) looks on the walls and tables in the Lawson Room at the Canastota Public Library. So grateful for having been welcomed back – and this time for two months (and one week!).
Thank you, Bill!
The library director purchased this amazing hardware that made my new installation at the Canastota Public Library so much better than my previous show.
Six dozen paintings (minus one that I left on a table easel in my living room) are now on display in the Lawson Room. These are encaustic, mixed media & collage paintings of flowers. They started off as lotus flowers but then I sort of branched out via the titles (Lily, Thistle, etc.). I created all the paintings this year. All are 8″ x 10″ on cradled hardboard and framed.
All paintings are available for sale. Contact information is listed in the literature.
The artwork will be featured at the library through October 2026. The Lawson Room is located in the basement of this Andrew Carnegie built library and can be accessed during library hours. There are many clubs and activities scheduled for this room in the coming months. They sound like a lot of fun – exercise classes, a writer’s group, bridge, a knitting and crochet club and lots more.
Monday: 9am – 8pm
Tuesday: 9am – 8pm
Wednesday: 9am – 8pm
Thursday: 9am – 8pm
Friday: 9am – 5pm
Saturday: 9am – 12pm
Sunday: Closed
Canastota Public Library
102 W. Center St.
Canastota, NY 13032
Phone: (315) 697-7030
Fax: (315) 697-8653
Email: canastota@midyork.org
Bill Loveland, Director
I just returned from installing my latest art exhibition. This one is at the Fayetteville Free Library, 300 Orchard Street, Fayetteville, NY 13066. The artwork will be on display through the month of July 2026.
There are six dozen 8″ x 8″ encaustic & collage paintings in this series. They are part of my bigger arch – creating a multi-cultural kingdom where everyone is welcome and everyone gets to choose their place in the dream, selecting their level of participation. In this world, there is only happiness and joy – no complaints, no violence, no illness, no misery.
I’ve incorporated international coins and stamps, origami and mulberry papers, embroidery floss, tartan ribbons, gold enamel and game pieces. The vintage elements create a feeling of nostalgia, as well as a sense of deja-vu.
Last year it took me six hours to work out the site plan, move the apparatus around and install a similar amount and sized series. This time I clocked it at four and a half hours. Thank you, Laurie Heyboer, for ordering more hooks. It was so much easier to mount the show! I appreciate you!!!
I just completed three dozen 12″ x 12″ encaustic & collage paintings. They are “The Robes”. I am delighted to finally share them with you!
Yes, I am currently working on a new series of thirty-six encaustic & collage paintings that I will share in the coming weeks, and yes, my art exhibition of forty-eight paintings of Encaustic Trees and Encaustic Hearts remains on display at the East Syracuse Free Library until June 30th, 2026. And, yes, I still have plenty of new artwork available for sale that will have their moment later in the year (some will be at the Fayetteville Free Library during July 2026). And, yes, yes, YES, I just returned from the Canastota Public Library where I installed an exhibition of seventy paintings (from three different encaustic & collage series) on the walls and tables in the Lawson community room!!!
Canastota Public Library
102 W. Center St.
Canastota, NY 13032
2. Arcadia 2 (Encaustic Targets 2025): I recently framed these encaustic & collage paintings. I originally planned to sell them along with table easel stands, but I like them better this way. They are 5″ x 7″ hardboard mounted on 8″ x 10″ chalkboard and framed.
3. Arcadia 1 (Encaustic Targets 2024): These encaustic & collage target paintings are 6″ x 8″ mounted on 9 x 12 1/2″ chalkboards and sold with the table easel stands.
This exhibition will be on view during library hours through June 30th, 2026. If you are interested in making a purchase, my contact information is listed in three locations in the room.
The Lawson community room is in the basement of the facility. It contains a full kitchen and I believe it is available for small events, like club meetings. They have regularly scheduled exercise and knitting club events there, for example.
Monday: 9am – 8pm
Tuesday: 9am – 8pm
Wednesday: 9am – 8pm
Thursday: 9am – 8pm
Friday: 9am – 5pm
Saturday: 9am – 12pm
Sunday: Closed
So, this is what’s happening. And P.S. – my painting Mustang Dance is currently on display at Main Street Arts. The art reception is Saturday, June 6th, 2026 from 3:00 to 6:00 PM.
I am delighted to reintroduce The Bungalows! Created last year, these paintings went through a series of transformations. At first, I had mounted them on collaged chalkboards. They felt too busy. I decided to switch out the chalkboards in favor of these 8″ x 10″ hardboards then framed them in the same frames I used for the Fan-Girl series of paintings.
But that still didn’t feel right. Yesterday I reframed them and I am now very satisfied with this version. I love them!
Many of the collage materials attached to these paintings were items I found while metal detecting the yard of my one-hundred-twenty-six-year-old home. So, this series is very personal to me because it is about me and all the other people who have lived in and loved my home. The paintings represent the little houses that sort of encompass my neighborhood even though they are all technically mine. My corner of the world. I know there are people out there who love the Arts & Crafts movement, who find joy in the craftsman style and can relate to this cherished history.
I recently acquired another venue for a future art exhibition and will inform you of the details as soon as tomorrow. There is a possibility that these paintings will get another show soon, but I am still pondering what to do, as I will be having multiple shows happening at once, which is crazy. So much is happening!
I’m in the middle of an update. Waiting for supplies to be delivered is always frustrating because (daddy, I want it now!) I want to complete these tasks right now. Immediately!
I wasn’t satisfied with the presentation of my bungalow series of paintings. I decided to switch out the frames. This created the domino effect of needing to purchase new hardboards for a yet undetermined series that will go into the “old frames”.
I received four of the new frames so far and at first I heard – what are you DOING????? from that contradictory voice inside my head that spews negativity (no doubt). But upon execution of this task, I am very pleased with the decision. The bungalows look incredible in their new digs!
In addition, I purchased frames for the horseshoe paintings. The 9″ x 12″ horseshoe paintings are now framed and residing on the floor of my living room. The 11″ x 14″ frames will arrive sometime next week or so. Needless to say, the artwork will be pricier now than when customers purchased them during their residency at Syracuse Yoga.
I also removed the backing chalkboards from the remaining horse and cow paintings. I created them in 2012 – they are among my first encaustic paintings. I’m waiting for 12″ x 12″ cradled hardboards to arrive (sometime today?). Then I will add the hardware to the back and mount the paintings. Not sure if I will tweak them as well. I don’t think they really need changes, but it seems that my ever evolving artistic standards may overrule that temporary plan.
I sold several of the horse paintings – I remember most of those sales. However, I do not know why I only have ten cow paintings. I did gift one to a student once because he was a dairy farmer. So, what the heck happened to the other one???? Who bought the purple cow?
The changes to these paintings were inspired by storage – clanking those boards around had damage potential. They were impossible to store properly and impossible to transport safely. It was only that – I still love the way I mounted them prior to this change. I am very grateful to those who purchased them in their original capacity.
Revisiting paintings is like rereading an old journal. It is a visual record of progress. Of the (over used word) journey, dare I say it.
If I end up having a huge retrospective one day, I think that these encaustic paintings will reveal a sort of fantasy realm, as though I am reliving another life with another voice. A message from the other voice (in this case a love language of positivity), which is how I described a series of oil & collage paintings I made in the late ’90s. It will be a full circle moment and for that brief time, everything about this situation will make sense.
Welcome to the new and improved versions of these paintings. I created them last year with the intention that they would be sold with a mission style table easel. I’m going to keep the easels to assist with future library art shows and/or to display my work if I ever have another opportunity for an indoor art sale like the one I participated in at that Jamesville, New York whiskey bar.
They look so much better in these fabulous frames. I am in love with them! They are encaustic & collage targets, 5″ x 7″ hardboard mounted on 8″ x 10″ chalkboard.
I reworked some of them. I added gold enamel. I changed out collage materials. I used my fingers to smudge in metallic cold waxes.
I thought they were done before, but once they were in the frames, I felt like they could be elevated via these tweaks.
The dream is to sell them as a group. Someone could install them on a wall as one giant piece or maybe they could place them on a long hallway wall in a business office.
I think this is the vision I have for all of my artwork. I create series of paintings with the intention that they be introduced to the world together as a unit, as a presentation much like a fashion show reveals a seasonal collection of clothing. I love this idea, that an idea expands to however many paintings brings it to fruition.
It’s always at least a dozen paintings of the same dimensions. In this case, there are two dozen.
I just completed this collection of twenty-four paintings. I am fascinated by the handbags depicted in ancient civilization bas-reliefs and sculptures across continents.
I created twenty-four different stencils to carve into ,my 6″ x 6″ hardboards. Then I used encaustics (and paper collage) to add color and texture.
I painted the backing board with both chalkboard paint and magnetic paint, as the mysterious handbags of old were perhaps electromagnetic in nature.
Then I added collage items that reflect my own history, as well as my signature arsenal of devices: game pieces, keys, ribbon, jewelry, wood chips and bobbins.
The fleur-de-lis dominoes have a beautiful patina, as they are new ones mixed with vintage pieces, which I love.
All are framed and ready for their conquest of the world.
There is such a rewarding feeling of validation and joy to the completion of a new series. I will bask in that after-glow while contemplating what to do next – possibly a second set of these or incorporating the handbags into a larger work, or, or, or?
Yesterday was a day of art immersion – two art shows and a fabulous day spent with my friend and fellow artist, Penny Santy. In conversation, I kept going back to this series, thinking about what I wanted its journey to be and truthfully, it would be amazing if someone wanted to buy them all and keep them together, because I feel like they are meant to be together.
But then, I think about how the ancient handbags are found in South America, Egypt, Turkey and Iraq. They stump archeologists as to their function. Maybe my handbags will be separated and valued individually, and treated with questionable mystery by the viewers who encounter them.
It’s exciting to dream about a future for my little paintings. They are infused with love, so whatever the outcome, they, and I, will be okay.
