In the vibrant world of LA-based Trinidad-born artist Miles Regis, creativity knows no bounds. With a background in fine art and fashion design, Regis seamlessly merges materials and techniques to craft captivating mixed media paintings. His large-scale works on canvas and linen feature dynamic collage elements, reflecting themes of love, activism, and cultural heritage. Through his bold use of color and recurring motifs like eyes, Regis invites viewers to explore deeper meanings.
Of 'My Beautiful Women' series the artist has this to say: “My new series is a celebration of feminine influences in my life. It is a celebration of all the women and female presence in my life. The portraits are an acknowledgement of the beauty and grace of the maternal forces I have been privileged to experience in the past, present and speak of future hope. It is a conversation about past, with my African and East Indian ancestors. My present, American family life experiences and a future global understanding of the role of the feminine.
These new paintings seek to capture the cultural and ancestral beauty experienced from my past life living in Trinidad, to my current American lifestyle living in midst of a glossy, glitter filled façade that is the beauty of Hollywood. A challenging of many past established beauty standards in a sense. It is my hope that the viewer feels the many moods of love I have experienced over the years, from the never-ending devotion and love I continue to feel from my 85-year-old mother who still lives in Trinidad, to the warm and nurturing energy of love and compassion my children and I feel from my wife. Continuing the love energy flow with the memory of the magical and mythical maternal instincts present with both of my grandmothers always celebrating their African and Indian roots respectively, to my present with the keen maternal instincts present in my 18-year-old daughter, as bookends to the story. Each painting highlights a delicately detailed working of both surface and narrative, in the same process that expresses the personal and collective mythologies enshrined in my art works, recalling the status-quo blasting majesty of the ‘Black is Beautiful’ moment in America."
Miles Regis is represented internationally by Cynthia Corbett Gallery.
