Gordon Rintoul was born in Young NSW and studied art in Sydney, Newcastle and New York. He was a painter, teacher and critic for over 60 years and had more than 50 solo and group exhibitions during his long career. Rintoul created large-scale paintings on environmental themes using a strong sense of materiality, technical invention and mixed media experimentation adding variety to surface qualities and the expressive range. His work is held in many personal and regional collections in Australia and overseas.