ABSTRACTS BY REGAN Regan Kenyon’s talent and recognition as an abstract artist developed while living in Vero Beach, Florida. Regan and his wife Mary moved to Vero Beach in 2011 after he retired as president of Secondary School Admission Test Board, an educational testing service based in Princeton, New Jersey. Regan’s own education includes a doctorate degree in education from Harvard University. His job, which required him to travel as much as 150 days a year, took him across the U.S., Europe and Asia. He found inspiration for the painting he does today in the great museums he visited on his travels. Close to home in Princeton, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA) was a favorite haunt. There he would commune for hours with the work of his Abstract Expressionists heroes Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. But Regan never was able to get into painting until he stopped working, believing that successful painting requires a generous amount of unstructured time. Once in Vero Beach, Regan devoted himself to oil and enamel abstract painting. Just five years later, following studio classes at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, Regan’s paintings ribboned at juried exhibitions, including “Best of the Best” A. E. Backus Museum in Ft. Pierce and “Art by the Sea” At the Vero Beach Museum of Art. He has had several solo shows and his solo show at The Center for Spiritual Care remains a celebrated success. In addition to being a feature artist at the Meghan Candler Gallery, Regan has exhibited and sold his work in both Princeton and Rumson New Jersey. His vibrant paintings now hang in collections along the East Coast and out West.