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After almost a full year in Northern Tuscany, another year of traveling amongst the Eastern United States and finally two years living on Maui, Ruth has updated her portfolio to illustrate her many explorations in painting, drawing and digital photography covering new themes and ideas.
Although classically trained and primarily a figurative painter, Ruth started to experiment with landscapes when she first visited Italy on a traveling grant in 2001. Several years later and still incessant in her search for color and light, she has added Maui to her small and serene paintings of land and sky. Covering only these two areas, her landscapes are truly of unique creation. They give the viewer a small glimpse in to the wide open skies and terrain of these two beautiful environments. An almost consistent composition in these works depicts the vibrant colors of the late evening light that bathes the sky and limits the land to a small sliver of shadows at the bottom of the composition.
Ruth then returned to the figure in a series title "The Dream Series," a collection of drawing, painting and digitally altered photography. They explore dreaming as a neurological, physiological and physical active state. The figures linger between representation and abstraction in these multi-layered images capturing the restlessness and activity without sacrificing the feeling of peace and tranquility.
Currently Ruth resides in Oak Park, Illinois just a few miles from Chicago. She is concentrating on a new body of work. View the Portfolio Galleries for a collection of her most recent work.
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