Ruth Richmond

Although Ruth’s fascination and need to ‘make’ started whilst a child when playing in her local woodland it took her until her thirties to venture to art school and pursue an education to support and define her interest. Completing a drawing MA at UAL Wimbledon 2015 with artist Tania Kovats.

She now works from and with the landscape.

Through experimenting with collected soils and flora she has found a method to draw and paint in 2D and 3D with these materials onto paper, bark, coppiced wood and clay, all of which she uses as a canvas to convey her subjects.

Her activities include:

Hosting and curating residencies on her small Suffolk sheep farm Inviting submissions for 12 artists from more town based residents to respond to life on a working sheep farm culminating in a month long exhibition.

Public commissions. Green Minds Therapy Garden, Wedgwood House, West Suffolk Hospital

Artist in Residence to River Stour Arthur Ransom 80 year memorial

Specific projects alongside environmentalists on the River Deben at Woodbridge called The Deben Soundings Project.

Selected for mixed exhibitions in the UK and Europe specifically Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize , Evening Standard Contemporary art prize RWA Bristol Open

Otherwise she is seen with sketchbook in hand roaming, collecting and sketching her way through the landscape.