REGINA DA COSTA VAL signs herself simply Costa Val. Maybe this is her way of throwing off the scent her other profession, that of medical doctor, which runs side by side with painting. One cannot say that one profession interfers with the other, but the truth is that the work strongly expressionist of Costa Val has much to do with her medical experience. Starting with the human figure. Usually, figurative painters express only the feelings of their figures, either to criticize the society where they live or simply to give vent to a revolt every artist carries inside him. Also a drawer, and of the best, Costa Val goes a little farther with her figuration, sometimes only a man and/or a woman, but beings showing a unconstrained conformation with their sort. Although squalid, as people, these figures or unknown portraits grin to us with a uncomfortable irony, which pursues us even when we are away from them. Then we finish by perceiving that the painter dissects each one of these personages in what they have of more dramatic, that is, their interior. It is a plunge into the depth of the human being. That is Costa Val’s painting. It is not a facile work, to ornament walls, but a very personal way for transmitting her feelings, as a person and as an artist. Costa val’s drawings are much more gentle, though. While painting affords her to work in large dimensions, her drawing flows to the white of the paper a urban human iconography, though of dramatic colors, without violence, but imbued with a creative and very laudable sincerity.

The present art of Minas Gerais, which many identify with the mountains that surround it, has in Costa Val one of its most positive glories.

President of the "Brasilian Association of Critics of Art" – Rio de Janeiro.