Ruth lives and works in Borth, Ceredigion. Trained as a Fine Artist, Ruth makes work that has its origins in the space between art and craft.
Describing herself as an artist/maker Ruth works predominantly with British wool fibre, using felt making techniques to realise her nature-inspired creations. Ruth has exhibited her felt work widely, taking it to Muscat in Oman and Norway in 2014. She takes part in wool and craft fairs throughout the UK and regularly teaches felt making.
This exhibition sees a departure from Ruth's usual more colourful work into the graphic and striking world of black and white and is Ruth's second visit to Gallery 3.
Felt Places
'Felt Places' is an exhibition of work inspired by and in memory of Roger Clive Powell, husband to Jen Jones, architect and restorer of old buildings, resident of Ceredigion and a generally lovely person who passed away in 2015.
The needle-felted buildings are just a few of those that Roger worked on.
The landscapes are snapshots of Ceredigion, celebrations of the beauty within which we live. Taking time to look at the world around us, whether over a fence to the distant hills, or at seagulls wheeling above, reminds us to stop, to breathe and to feel joy in the moment; life is short.
The work is made by pushing wool fibre through the fabric using a needle-felting needle - the results give an almost charcoal effect, sketchy and soft focus. The wool used in this work is all from the Cambrian Mountains.
Birds gathering on a wire, some say, have a sense of the ominous. There are flocks of corvids that fly around Borth at dusk and together with seagulls the noise of these is the day to day soundtrack to life in this seaside village. Ruth spends time looking at and photographing these birds as they perch and interact on the wires in front of her house. These wet felted pictures are the result of her observations.
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