ABOUT ME
Hi, I’m Ruth!
I, Ruth am a renaissance woman. I can build a sofa from the beginning, design a logo, sew a wedding gown, re-wire a vintage Triumph Spitfire, design some fabric, reproduce artwork, cater a community fund-raiser for 200, paint watercolour, teach a knitting class and the list goes on. Creative from the core since early childhood, I find my greatest inspiration in the natural world. Shapes, forms, textures, and colours, all inform my play and creations. Details unseen by the casual observer catch my attention, especially when I have my camera in hand. Proportions, frameworks, the relationship between things, and the “bones” of things interest me.
When the next creative adventure beckons – and there are constantly new ones calling, I seek to understand how something works and proceed to teach myself how. That isn’t to say I don’t learn from others, rather that I appreciate those who have come before with knowledge and wisdom to share and I find my own path to it and through it. My greatest joy is finding a new challenge to dive into, a new adventure to take, and ideally someone to share it with.
The willingness to always show up as a learner, has allowed me to encompass a very broad range of skills which I happily put to use in the service of creativity. I am also highly motivated to use and re-use found materials in my efforts to create – exactly the way nature works all the time. Nothing in nature is ever wasted, it all gives itself up eventually to the re-creation of something new and change is the constant. Always a death and rebirth. And so it is with each of us.
I presently live and create, mainly on Vancouver Island, Canada, but truly I go where adventure calls. Given the right motivations, anything and anywhere is possible. Thanks for allowing me to share my creative adventures here with you.
Ruth
Where you can find me!
The best place to find me is in my studio. The tactile nature of the things I work with invite a real world touch and feel. I give limited time to an online presence – but you can find our work on Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook. Besides it’s so much nicer to meet YOU in person!
