With the present exhibition Regina da Costa Val reveals the extent of her artistic instinct, a quality that only really talented artists have. She has chosen one of the most arduous courses for her artistic production, namely the expressionism. She tries, and succeeds, to create subjective visions through perceptive forms, to represent aesthetically the deep feelings of the human being, and to transmit her comprehension by means of a pictorial language of great artistic value.

Regina´s creative force manifests itself in the vigorous tracing rhythm of her painting method and in the color treatment she gives her pictures – two components that are fundamental if a painting is to acquire the status of a work of art. She uses paint with taste and sensibility, the contour traces of each one of her paintings presenting an appropriate rhythm in accordance with the internal and external structure of the work. The curves that predominate in her work exhale a mysterious, sensual-genesiac energy that remit us to the geodesic line that configures the universe structure: the cosmic-human unity. The chromatic composition predominant in her pictures is simple but reveals a high pictorial expressivity.

She achieves this thanks to her capability of exhausting through her brushes all the energetic potential that color contains by means of a correct gradation of the chromatic intensity. Regina follows the rule established by the Chinese critic of art, Hsieh Ho. V century, which states: " Each object has its appropriate color. The colors used in a painting must suggest the nature of what is being presented." This is something the artist is capable of doing only by instinct, according to his creative capability.

Regina is an excellent expressionist artist. It is not easily found such an extensive and profound work dealing with the human figure in its subjective world, immersed in the depths of its ego. She dedicates herself to materialize artistically the abysmal mystery of the human look. Her expressionism manifests itself through rhythmical distorted forms imbued with an emotional intensity that express a moving anguish, inducing us not to commiseration but to solidarity. With Regina we learn that the human face guards and expresses all the infinite richness of human subjectivity.

Her Paintings shun standardized beauty and may, at first sight, even cause a certain strangeness to the onlooker, but it is only a passing reaction. For their aesthetic absortion it is necessary a more accurate appraisal that will permit the detection of the extraordinary spiritual beauty revealed by her work. Referring to the problem of beauty, Henry Moore said: "There exists a difference of function between beauty of expression and power of expression. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the other has spiritual vitally." The power of expression of Regina´s work fits into the spiritual vitally and the most profound beauty.

Historian and Critic of Art