BIO
Regina McAndrew (b. 1965, Manila, Philippines) is an Edinburgh‑based painter known for her large‑scale floral works in oil on canvas. Her restrained palettes and dramatic compositions balance delicacy and intensity, transforming roses and peonies into atmospheric meditations of form and emotion.
Her work uses the traditional language of oil painting and the floral form to explore the shifting terrain of time, identity, and lived experience. Her exhibition Invisible drew on the idea of the “invisible woman syndrome,” transforming blooms into metaphors for presence, erasure, and the quiet resilience of midlife. In Light Sings, she extended this inquiry, using light, colour, and gesture to evoke memory and the layered nature of personal identity. Across both bodies of work, McAndrew’s flowers become more than subjects—they act as vessels through which she examines the complexities of identity through time.
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Education
2016-2017: The Figurative Course, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
1987-1989: Bachelor of Arts, Illustration and Communication Design, Parsons in Paris, Paris, France.
1985-1987: Otis Parsons, Los Angeles, USA.
Exhibitions
2025, Light Sings, Altro Mondo Creative Space (solo exhibition) Manila, Philippines
2025, Re:Collections, Dundas Street Gallery: (self-curated group exhibition) Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2025, Untitled exhibition, Art Elaan (group exhibition) Manila, Philippines
2023, Invisible, Altro Mondo Creative Space (solo exhibition) Manila, Philippines
2022, Floramundi, The Life Room (self-curated solo exhibition) Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2021, Florescence, The Life Room (self-curated group exhibition) Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2018-2019, Various, with Nak.Ed Art Collective (self-curated group exhibitions) Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2017, Quartet, Dundas Street Gallery (self-curated group exhibition) Edinburgh, United Kingdom