Gail Reingold has been living near, painting and documenting images of Centennial Park over many years.
For her, the act of painting landscape is a meditative, mindful practice, reflecting the calming effects she feels when immersed in the primal pull of nature.
Her approach is more suggestive, leaning towards abstraction, rather than figurative.
With colour and gesture the work becomes emotive as she captures seasonal colour, soothing organic shapes in the landscape and the fleeting moods of changing light.
She explores the tension between deliberate marks that suggest detail, contrasted with abstract and serendipitous mark making that move the eye around the canvas.
Gail studied B.A. Visual Arts in Graphic Design at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, graduated 1987.
In 2015 she completed an MArt (Painting) at UNSW Art, Architecture and Design.
Since 2008 she has also tutored at UNSW Art, Architecture and Design faculty in Graphic Design as well as the inaugural FADA 2020, 2023 (Sustainability in Industrial Design).
She has worked full time and freelance as a designer, studio manager and art director.
Gails’ work is held in various private collections and the Centennial Park Trust.