About the Art

The Arcade paintings each represent a small incident enlarged, incidents which derive from the Shadowbox series. They are like fragments, and an exercise in trying to repeat something that first happened by accident. The result is that they are quite varied, ranging from heavy blocked-out colour to translucent layered mark-making and textured surface.

Curator Insights

Stephen Beddoe

Stephen Beddoe said:

"In a time of cool minimalism and over-wraught art school conceptualism, these abstract painting celebrate pattern, colour and the history of ornamentation. Ruth's work is interesting and a worthwhile addition to any collection"

About the Artist Artist Profile

Ruth Solomons is a London based artist who's practice is focused around her layered based paintings. Her work is bulit up in layers ,through a process of projecting and recording small linear shapes and objects which the artist makes from paper, wire and string. The artist graduated from Wimble…

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