Inside and outside
Regina Case’s art focuses on domestic interiors and their relationship to the wild spaces outdoors
The outside and the inside colorfully blend together on canvas in acrylic artist Regina Case’s paintings. Her work can be seen in March at Truchas Gallery in Los Bagels, 403 Second St. in Eureka.
“My paintings focus on domestic interiors and their relationship to the wild spaces outside the windows and doors,” Case said in an email interview. “I am pulled to keep returning to this combination of human space with animals and wild landscape, in some manner defining our connection to the land.
“I add animals and nature to remind that we are all part of the equation,” she said. “We need to care for the wild world if any of us are to survive, and the wild is so very beautiful.”
Many of her works do include animals: a bear in “Three Dreams,” a fox in “Storm Green,” a jackrabbit in “Safe,” geese in “Migration Call,” as well as a lot of dogs, including the collie in “Willits House,” the greyhound in “Zeppelin” and many others.
“A room feels empty to me without a dog. They add so much love,” said Case, who has two dogs, Bella and Russell, as well as a cat and some koi at her Eureka home, which also serves as her art studio.
“I love being with the dogs,” she said, “and stepping out for garden breaks.”
Case has been creating art for most of her life. Her father was an artist, and their home was often filled with artists and conversations about art, she said.
Case — a 1981 fine art graduate of Humboldt State University — is currently represented by Robert Allen Fine Art in Sausalito and Convergence Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Over the years, she has shown her work in Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Palm Desert and other venues, as well as in Humboldt County. Her work, she said, is in “hundreds of private collections, nationally and international, perhaps the most fun being Healing Spirit Animal Wellness Center in Eureka.”
To learn more about Case and see examples of her artwork, go to www.reginacase.com.
“My paintings focus on domestic interiors and their relationship to the wild spaces outside the windows and doors. I am pulled to keep returning to this combination of human space with animals and wild landscape, in some manner defining our connection to the land.”
— Regina Case