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RUTH BOND FINE ART
Predominantly working in oils , Ruth uses both palette knife and brush , resulting in the blended but also richly textured , vibrant style for which she has become renowned . She qualified in fashion and built an award-winning interior designer business in Newcastle .
Having worked and travelled in many countries across the globe , absorbing cultures , colours and the beauty of the natural world , Ruth now works happily painting in oils , always from experience of the countryside she loves – especially her local Northumbrian coast , and another favourite , the Outer Hebrides .
Ruth ’ s instinctive response to the rich colours in the Hebridean landscapes , echoed in the traditional island tweeds , produced a profound effect on her work . Her recent trip to the magical Isles was to set up a second exhibition of oil paintings , each one based on a particular Harris Tweed swatch , the starting point limiting the paint pallet mixed from just these colours . As a result , her landscapes resemble not just the purple , peaty rivers , vibrant turquoise of the seas , blindingly white beaches , and heathery moors but also the natural ingredients that went into dying the yarns . Her joy in being there as often as she can , expressed in her paintings , has made her work much loved and sought after . Her paintings are now collected world-wide .
She has produced 2 sell-out coffee table books :
“ Outer Hebrides Captured ” which presents her collection of Scottish paintings alongside the inspiration Harris Tweeds and accompanied by Peter Rees ’ s sensitive poetry .
“ Northumberland Coast Captured ”, combining her paintings of the great wide Northern beaches and the castles that loom over them , with traditional songs , historic detail , poetry and scraps of curious local information .
“ Weather and light fascinate me , with their ability to transform a
landscape in seconds from one mood to another . I use saturated colour to heighten contrast and capture light , reflections , the salt in the wind - and re-create the ambience .”
Over the past 12 years Ruth has held regular solo and joint exhibitions in the North of England , Outer Hebrides and London , and she also runs popular oil painting workshops . Ruth Bond Art produces limited edition fine art Giclee prints of her paintings , including stretched canvas large prints .
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