Archive - The Windmills Of My Mind

Instagram Livestream on Tuesday lunchtime

Talking with entomologist Erica McAlister about the connection between museum collections, art, and fieldwork.

Mar 29 • Gail Reid

6 WAYS TO BOOST YOUR SKETCHING

For pressure-free sketching you need reliable materials that don’t cost the earth

Mar 27 • Gail Reid

Rejections galore, meet the artists, and a takeover

Nice words help

Mar 16 • Gail Reid

Do we need the Society of Women Artists?

It was such an honour to have the models from my painting visit the 164th SWA show last summer. A techno-political researcher, a pole dance instructor…

Mar 5 • Gail Reid

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February 2026

Swimming in the communal pool of ideas

Reflections after The Prado in Madrid - how artists engage with the canon.

Feb 23 • Gail Reid

BTA art prize - please vote for my portrait of Amit Ghose

Voting closes on Sunday at 4pm

Feb 16 • Gail Reid

Should we make art from photos?

If you want a convincing animal or person in your artwork, the time-honoured approach is to practice relentlessly from life, and to study anatomy. That…

Feb 9 • Gail Reid

Exhibition catalogue: on location in the South West

Showing oil paintings and sketches in Bristol's North Street Gallery Feb-April

Feb 1 • Gail Reid

January 2026

Painting in public

“People will judge you. You might obstruct pedestrians. What if it rains? What if you drop all your brushes?“

Jan 26 • Gail Reid

Why paint from life?

However much an artist may change or evolve their conscious technique, the uniqueness of their visual observation underpins it

Jan 14 • Gail Reid

Let's talk about Picasso in 1937

Can you separate the artist from the art? I've never loved his work. But saw it in person recently, and did some digging...

Jan 5 • Gail Reid

A mother's grief: not enough for Picasso?

In jazzing up Kollwitz's 'Mother With A Dead Child' for 'Guernica', Picasso imposes both his character and his graphic language.

Jan 5 • Gail Reid

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