Claudia Rega (b. 1963, Germany) began her career as a professional psychologist. Her work playfully tussles with abstraction and representation, in deep connection with the life-affirming forces of nature. The paintings, created with both acrylic and oil, are in constant motion. Layers are added over stretches of time and older details painted over; there are bursts of spontaneity and periods of long silence. Thus what emerges, is a topography of emotion. The use of oil sticks adds new staccato marks in the chaos of these organic landscapes.

Rega’s abstraction is on the verge of nature, symbolic of its chaos, unpredictability and beauty. Representation, as it appears in her work, is enfolded in nature and part of the sediment of living things, not separate from it. With bold color and gesture she explores various mediums textures to bring alive the empathic beauty of the human psyche. Rega currently lives and works in Munster, Germany.

“When I think of the viewer looking at my paintings, I hope for a bit of unfamiliarity compared to ones own experience and the lust to discover something outside ones own body and mind. I want to construct different worlds, where on can spend time and discover something new.” - Claudia Rega