Her father was a farmer and her mother, Ana Maria de Souza Pereira, was a farmhand and a craft worker that mainly occupied herself by threading cotton, creating pottery dishes and pots, fabricating lace, and making butter.
[14] Reinbolt started expressing herself creatively as a child by painting old newspapers and making collages out of leaves and feathers.
In São Paulo, her employer would refer to Reinbolt as an artist and would incentivize her to pursue a career in the arts.
According to Reinbolt, Soares gave her brushes, oil paints, and paper after finding an album of drawings she made after moving away from Rio de Janeiro that depicted the city's landscapes and landmarks like Sugarloaf Mountain and Christ the Redeemer.
[6] Her tapestries depicted agropastoral themes similar to the ones she experienced growing up in rural Bahia, with animals, trees, and boiaderos.