Gail Reid Artist

22/06/2026

Reversing a car while blocking in a beautiful posthumous portrait, taking clues from the photo, and inferring light and shadow. Plus a deep dive into vintage cars, to identify the model and fill in the gaps. Anyone want to show their age by laying claim to a Vauxhall Viva HB?! I love this sort of sleuthing, it wouldnt be possible without having done a lot of plein airing.

19/06/2026

6 days (over the month) of planning, measuring, cutting, inking - finally yesterday I got my hands back on my old friend the press . This is just a very rough proof - enough to now finish cutting the blocks and sorting the colours. This linocut will be part of my show in August - see website/newsletter for details and PV plans. Huge thanks to Theo .and.ephemera for teaching me how to set up the press and patiently sort out the registration of the two blocks. It's a long way off editioning, will always be a bit rustic, but this was a big step forward.

17/06/2026

A busy week coming up in London, exhibiting and demonstrating. Invitations for you, and info here in my latest newsletter:

Invitations for you - London - next week

08/06/2026

Happy Monday! With a full heart from visiting the show, I'm looking forward to our exhibition opening party tomorrow evening . DJ, bar, and yours truly stewarding. Meanwhile, cracking on with portait commissions, and a background for my live piece for the Summer Party at the show later this month. And will be carving linocuts... need more hours in the day!

31/05/2026

"I cycled here very quickly. I thought I'd cooled down but now realise I hadn't" and other 15 minute sketches from today's .portrait.club 🤣. Was great to have with us, home for a fleeting visit - managed to incorporate a glimpse of her on the 2nd image. Did some sitters a great disservice, but including all for completeness, except one (in following post).

19/05/2026

While the canvases are drying, I'm really excited to be printing back at my spiritual home... 🥰. Thanks to Theo .and.ephemera for a refresher on the imposing but brilliant today. Now, just to decide which 2 dungophile invertebrates should be immortalised on linocut? 🤔... thoughts?!