Reviewing Gere’s solo show in 1947 at Cheltenham Art Gallery, the artist Francis Dodd wrote: ‘The art of Charles Gere has the great quality of finding the beautiful in the familiar, and the power to communicate it pictorially’ (Gloucestershire Echo, 4 October 1947). Gere painted several large watercolours of West Country harbours between the wars. ER Payne (in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) described them as ‘open windows with the subject cut by the frame instead of being composed in relation to it’.