Ruth is a painter and sculptor living and working in Edinburgh. Her work is generally figure-based and quite stylised.

"I am interested in the mundanity of our everyday existence and the ways in which we transform reality through the rich workings of our inner lives. However banal their activity, I would like my figures to convey engagement in what they are doing, thinking, or feeling.

My urge to create, however, is driven largely by the visual and I am very much caught up in what Max Beckmann referred to as 'the fantasy palace of art', the world of images and artifice. The stillness of many of my images reflects my fascination with sculptural form, the way light creates mass. I am also drawn to what is static as a means of reducing and concentrating time in order to capture a moment."