Regine Freise

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Born: Essen
Lives: Berlin

Education
1977-1981 School of Fine Arts (FHS f�r Kunst), K�ln, degree of stage design.
1981-1984 Stage-design assistant at the Cologne theatre (Schauspielhaus K�ln) and the opera de Lyon (France)
1984-1998 stage designer and occasionally costume designer for about 24 productions in various theatres: D�sseldorf, K�ln, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Oberhausen, T�bingen, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Z�rich, Stockholm
since 1992 set design assistant, prop master, art director, production designer for TV and cinema.
It was by curiosity that I started to paint in 2004, trying to figure out whether I would be able to do so. I went on and on, trying to become a better painter.
This is a purely technical approach to painting, but a reason as good as any other.
It�s all about finding the best way to create volumes of light and shadow by using oil paint on a canvas, telling short stories in a painting which would otherwise need many words to be told. Development of my works involves photography ( by myself, Franck Evin, Pasquale Di Stasio) and computer layout. So far you could call it � mixed media �. The final result comes always as a traditional painting, oil on canvas.