Ruth graduated from the Norwich University of the Arts in 2004. She exhibits widely in East Anglia, including shows with Gallery East and Cambridge Contemporary and in London with Highgate Contemporary Art. Ruth’s bright, futuristic landscapes take on a nostalgic, Hopper-esque loneliness. 

‘ I am continually drawn to places that hover 'on the edge’. Over the past year or so, I have started to paint slightly more urban settings and buildings. This began during lockdown, during which the only scenery available to me was urban. I am drawn to areas that sit just on the outskirts, just on the border, and places that lie in the ‘grey’ area. Similarly, when I paint landscapes/treescapes, it is the outer edges that draw me close. Juxtapositions and contrasts. Things and places that can hold opposing characteristics simultaneously. The beauty of the woodlands and forests co-existing with an idea that it would be easy to get lost within. One heightening the other, for example, the immense power of the nuclear power station at Sizewell seems as sublime to me as the sea it sits next to. Each contains the potential for danger whilst being essential. Memories of childhood picnics, full of remembrances of the familiar, tame, and friendly, yet in places that, upon revisiting, I find odd...edges of roads in the middle of nowhere, desolate car parks with views of expanses of forests. A similar contrast to being inside the confines of the car, that feeling of pure 'homeliness', while travelling through areas unfamiliar and 'other’.'