Don Reichert is a Manitoba artist. While primarily a painter in the abstract expressionist tradition, he is also notable as a photographer and digital media artist. He studied art in Canada, Mexico, and England. He taught for many years at the University of Manitoba. Reichert has produced work that is held in many notable public, corporate and private collections.

Reichert’s early work often combined the elegant brush-strokes of abstract expressionist painting with the techniques of colour field composition. Other significant strands of his work centre on black-and-white paintings resembling Asian calligraphy, or on the use of Latin American imagery, particularly skull imagery derived from various Latin American ruins. He is perhaps best known, though, for large canvases painted out of doors. While abstract, these are reflective of the landscapes around him, often the forests and lakes of the Canadian Shield. The technique of composition is unusual: canvases are laid on the uneven ground, and the impression of the earth beneath is subtly incorporated into the composition.

Multimedia works include photographs that have been painted over, often with elegant splattering or dripping in the style of Jackson Pollock. He has also created works that incorporate photographs into painting. As Reichert is an accomplished pilot, many of these are aerial photographs: a continuation of his ongoing interest in landscape.

His new work explores digital photography.