Her first creative impulse when faced with the Amazon wasn’t to
sketch or take a photo—it was a feeling. The deep green, the
living sounds of the water, the calls of birds and animals—all of it
wrapped around her in reverence. It was as if the art was
already there, waiting to be uncovered in colors and stories.
Regina interprets this land with a realist gaze that goes beyond
accuracy—it breathes emotion. Her palette doesn’t imitate
nature; it feels it. By working with a limited range of colors, she
draws out hidden nuances, oblique light, and textures that
speak, without words, of the forest’s vibrant complexity. Every
leaf, every water reflection, every animal’s gaze is treated like a
secret being revealed.
But perhaps it’s in the eyes of the animals that her art reaches
its most tender expression. In the golden lion tamarin’s gaze—a
personal symbol she chose to represent the Amazon—she finds
the bridge between technical detail and the soul of the biome.
With its golden brilliance and rare delicacy, the creature
appears in her paintings not just as an endangered species, but
as a metaphor for art itself: fragile and brave, carrying light,
silence, and legacy.
That silence, in fact, is a vital part of her creative process. Not
the absence of sound, but an active listening. In her studio,
between calm brushstrokes and suspended atmospheres,
Regina creates a space that distances itself from outside noise
to engage in an equal conversation with the forest. A quiet
symphony between the jungle’s whisper and the stillness of
creation.
To her, the geometry of the forest doesn’t lie in exact formulas,
but in the veins that weave, the dance of branches, the watery
labyrinths. It’s an order that welcomes chaos. A beauty hidden in
what is imperfect, asymmetrical, organic. And it’s precisely this
kind of wild order that her trained eye captures with rare
sensitivity.
While painting the Amazon, Regina discovered a forest within
herself. And perhaps that’s the greatest message of her work:
“I’ve learned that there’s a forest inside me too—intense, deep,
and full of contrasts.” That honesty reverberates through her
canvases. They ask us a silent yet powerful question: Are we
ready to see the world with the same attention, with the same
respect?
In its most mature expression, Regina Picoli’s realism reminds us
that the most radical act of preservation begins with the act of
truly seeing.
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