Ruth Richmond

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I live on a small sheep farm in Suffolk making and drawing. Having left school at 15 yrs old because I hated sitting at a desk and being confined; I spent my teens and twenties working and always moving looking for something that drove me but kept me still. Finally in my thirties I sat down long enough to learn to draw. I now draw in 2D and 3D on any object I can find to use as my ‘canvas’.

“We have lost our ‘bush soul’ which links us to the totem and ancestral spirits in nature” Jung (Sabini,2001, p.79)

Through experimenting with collected soils and flora I have found a method to draw and paint with these materials onto paper, bark, coppiced wood and recently clay, all of which I use as a canvas. I make and use these discoveries to connect with my subject. Each project site suggests and offers its own palette and story. I sometimes integrate bought paints and graphites with what is available in the landscape but often find raw material offers enough to illustrate my objective. In order to engage the viewer I find a construct through these materials to analyse and devise methods to bring to the gallery thus bringing a different connotation to their first form.