Gail Reid Artist

11/10/2026

Press buttons and tear a strip off the work with me in the annual open exhibition 😱 . Volume up to fully appreciate the interactive artworks featured:
- Horseman - Stop horsing around
- Beyond the veil
- A multitude within
- REM
- Chatty chef


This is 173rd show, open until 3rd January. A refreshing mix of excellent work. Very friendy staff offering information with enthusiasm. From the catalogue it seems to have about twice as many artworks by non-RWAs compared to by RWAs. All this makes me want to try entering next year after a long despondent hiatus. Huge thanks to Ren Renwick for welcoming on a brilliant tour of the show.

08/10/2026

Spike Print Studio - drypoint based on a drawing from life, with photos to capture the people at work. The studio is a wonderful place full of light, machinery, and amazing printmakers. A place of individual creative journeys that intermingle and interweave. I have been so inspired and helped by the people here. It's great to be back after a decade away. L to R George, Freya, Chris, Bob and Chiara. I will find their tags and add them so you can see their amazing work.

06/10/2026

Katherine Tyrrell (Making A Mark)'s review of the Society of Wildlife Artists annual show.

Below, in comments, is a link to MY MAKINGAMARK REVIEW of the 63rd Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wildlife Artists which Harriet Mead, Sculptor has led for the last 17 years. Every other Director of a National Art Society at the Mall Galleries has changed while I've been writing reviews in the last two decades - except for Harriet.
As always the exhibition is extremely good and well worth a visit.
You can also see all the artwork in photo albums on this page.

06/10/2026

https://journal.gailreidartist.com/p/dungscape-in-swla-reviews

03/10/2026

Joy, smiles and tears on Bristol harbourside today as Wales & West Rock Choir serenaded the Alzheimer's Society memory walkers and volunteers. The choir and audience sang and clapped the walkers as they passed, a wonderful moment of shared humanity.

26/09/2026

Very lucky to have had this sunny day at Bristol Harbourside outside The M Shed, painting the cranes with Bristol Plein Air Painters . Huge thanks to Helena Traill Art (image 5) for organising us for a whole year.

22/09/2026

Delighted that both my Purple Emperor and Hornet Robberfly linocuts have been selected for exhibition at Society of Wildlife Artists annual exhibition 'The Natural Eye' in The Mall Galleries . They are part of the project, a winner of the 2026 SWLA bursary award. The whole project will be on show in the bursary section of the show, including oil paintings, sketches and concertina sketchbook. A chance to reflect on the meandering path of this project - research that took me from Bristol Museums and Natural History Museum, London collections, to Knepp Wilding estate, with the help of countless ecologists.

See https://www.gailreidartist.com/dungscape for the whole project information.

Based on sketches from life, microscope and field, the linocuts were made and printed at Spike Print Studio on the press that the late great Peter Reddick introduced me to.

The oil paintings were beautifully framed by my local

With grateful thanks to Knepp Wilding Kitchen & Shop , for exhibiting the project early this year.

20/09/2026

As usual, fantastic Bristol Portrait Club today Arnolfini . Lovely atmosphere and lighting, wonderful sketches and poses by so many good people. Some great outfits, corduroy was the winner, so I tried to do whole figures as far as possible. Here are my 15 minute sketches, of variable quality, but all done with a full heart.