Ruth Addinall
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.
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."
"I am interested in the rituals of everyday existence, especially those that connect us with our inner selves, like reading, writing a letter, having coffee or simply being immersed in our own thoughts. I would like my work to convey something of the atmosphere of these moments, because they both remind us of our essential isolation, but are also moments that we recognise and share. At the same time, I am very much caught up in the mysterious world of painting (creating images) and the wonderful artifice of it all. So my figures and their settings are not realistic but stylised to fit my pictorial world. I paint mainly in oils on canvas, wood, board and paper."
Sculpture
My sculpture so far has been almost entirely figure based and most of it in wood, but I have also worked in plaster, clay, and concrete.
I will undertake commissions.
