Gail Mason
Gail Mason is an intuitive painter/printmaker exploring the ‘Emotional Landscape’ through gestural, semi-abstract, fictive places full of movement, weather, air and space. The work is characterised by exuberant gestural paintings of semi-abstract landscapes.
Looking to nature to inspire and delight, creating fictive environments and revelling in colour which is used to set the emotional tone. Celebrating the spiritual power of open spaces and the cyclical nature of life, the concept of journey both physical and metaphorical is central to the work.
Taking colour for a dance rather than 'a line for a walk’, where speed and gesture combined with periods of reflection and careful editing result in paintings that allow the viewer a space for daydreaming. Offering a sense of perspective, inviting reflection, and celebrating the restorative and hopeful aspects of our world.
She holds a BA Hons in Fine Art and a Masters in Multidisciplinary Printmaking, has received several national awards, and is an elected member of Somerset Printmakers, Bath Society Of Artists and the Royal West of England Academy Artists Network.
She shows widely across the UK and London including the Mall Galleries and Bankside, and has been selected for the Royal Academy.