Exhibition: Hope triumphs over adversity

‘I believe in Hope, in unity. I paint intuitively and with expression’  

Ruth has a primal connection to wilderness. She explores the landscape with her body: rock-climbing, mountaineering, cycling, feeling the earth rumble through her. This bodily experience of landscape is reflected in the kinetic way Ruth creates her paintings. Inner and outer landscapes collide, carving a way through dark and often confusing times, seeking the light that offers the beacon of hope, a celebration of difference. Sometimes working on enormous bedsheets, she allows herself to be entirely instinctive with paint. At the beginning, the marks are frenzied, the choices of colour entirely innate.

 ‘My work is ever evolving like my own journey, navigating and overcoming. Green shoots will grow, the clouds will break, a voice will be heard.