Ruth Rodgers
Ruth
Rodgers has
only recently taken up pastels, but has been drawing and painting all her life.
After a brief stint in a college art fundamentals program in her late teens
she switched paths and went on to become an academic, while continuing to study
art for personal enjoyment throughout her teaching career and the raising of
five children. Now, as she gets closer to retirement from her full time job,
she is focusing on building pastel painting skills to add to her acrylic and
oil painting skills, and exploring the potential for a new career as a painter.
Ruth
is inspired by her immediate surroundings, and hopes that her work will help
viewers to see the beauty in the everyday world. A country girl since age 13,
Ruth focuses mostly on the rural landscapes and rhythms of agricultural life
in the counties encircling London, Ontario, with occasional trips to exotic
locations. She also enjoys interpreting the human journey through figural works.
Ruth has a number of solo and group shows scheduled over the next eighteen months,
in the London area.
