Gina Rorai begins her large-scale landscape paintings with broad strokes of colour that evoke vibrant waves of energy. Rather than painting landscapes from life, Rorai expresses her memory of perceiving a landscape while walking through it. Horizons do not line up, and there is a constant shift between the images that appear close and far.

Rorai is interested in the qualities of the domestic and quotidian, and her work often appears as a landscape seen through a window, from the perspective of a domestic space looking out. She abstracts or disrupts familiar spaces or landscapes, playing with shifts between interior and exteriors views across the same plane.