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. Selected for the Royal Academy she is the recipient of several national awards and shows widely around the UK.