Regula's portfolio • Regula's homepage contact Regula I was born and raised in the upstate of South Carolina. From my earliest memories, all I ever wanted to do was make things. Lucky for me my parents encouraged me and let me fill my room with works of "art" I studied at Winthrop University and received a BA in 1971. I became an art educator and taught in schools in South Carolina until the late 1970's. At that time I moved to Atlanta, Ga. In Atlanta I used my art educator experience in designing computer based manuals and training programs. In 1983, I married and moved back to Spartanburg. Since that time, I have pursued a career as a professional artist. My work in the past ten years has changed from works on paper to works of polymer clay. Since discovering this material, I have experimented with using it to create relief paintings and most recently, small and large sculpture works. This clay has given me a new way to involve detail, texture, painting and sculpture techniques in my work. The ideas and technical challenges involved in working with this material keep me excited about my work. I feel that I have only begun this phase of my artistic exploration.						SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 1999 Pickens County Juried Exhibit Purchase Award 1997 Anderson Art Association, Purchase Award 1996 Artists' Guild of Spartanburg Juried Exhibit, Merit Award 1995 Western North Carolina Juried Art Exhibit, Merit Award 1995 Anderson Art Assoc. Juried Exhibit, Purchase Award 1993 Artists' Guild of Spartanburg Juried Exhibit, Merit Award 1992 Artists' Guild of Spartanburg Juried Exhibit, Purchase Award 1989 South Carolina Artist Guild Juried Show, Merit Award 1988 Riverplace Festival, Greenville, S.C. Merit Award 1987 Artists' Guild of Spartanburg Juried Exhibit, Mosley Award 1984 Artists' Guild of Spartanburg Juried Exhibit, Merit Award