[2] She went on to study at the Huddersfield College of Art from 1934 to 1937,[1] and by that time, the Great Depression undermined her father's photography business, causing her to join the Professional Photographers' Association.
[2][3] Reynolds joined the local ARP unit when the Second World War broke out, and was transferred to become a teleprinter operator at the headquarters of the Civil Defence Service in London in 1941.
She developed a like of desert scenery while producing sketches in Arizona and New Mexico and made a series of small Indian ink and gouache pictures to capture Reynolds' reaction to South America's arid landscapes and sunsets.
[5][7] She admired Gross' engraving and painting and collected his works and found inspiration from John Atkinson Grimshaw, Caspar David Friedrich, J. M. W. Turner, Bill Brandt's black-and-white abstract photographs and Hamaguchi's large mezzotints.
[5][7] She went on a trip to Japan in the 1980s and grew more interested in mezzotint, leading her to include Mount Fuji and Shinto shines in her small black-and-white works.
[2][5] She was married to the art historian and museum curator Graham Reynolds from 6 February 1943 until her death from heart failure at their home in Bradfield St George, Suffolk on 12 December 2002.
[1] Michael Kauffman called Reynolds "a Yorkshire woman of great human warmth, and neither her jollity nor her outspokenness were affected by years of living in the south.