Ruth Addinall's figurative paintings have a still and monumental quality about them, capturing the atmosphere of private and personal moments. Their static air lends them a sculptural tone, suggesting glimpsed points in time. Ruth achieves this by the use of light that filters through her work and by working up through loose under painting to a very tightly hatched finish. The flattened quality of her interior spaces is reminiscent of the Japanese influence on the Post Impressionist painters. Indeed, Bonnard is an especial influence on her work. Ruth is interested in the artifice of making images, combined with the mundanity of everyday living and this creates a subtle storytelling which pulls the viewer into her world and her paintings, revealing poignant lasting images.

Selected Exhibtions:

2009 European Commission, London, Flat Cat Gallery, Lauder

2008 Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh

2007 Corte Real Gallery, Albufeira, Portugal, Flaubert, Edinburgh

2006 Gallery Gora, Montreal, Artdecaf, Glasgow, St Andrews Pottery, St Andrews, Fife

2005 Just Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Dalkeith Arts Centre, Iona House Gallery, Oxforshire, David Young Gallery, Edinburgh

2004 Bridgeman Art Library, Contemporary Artist

2003 Cambridge Contemporary Arts, Wade Gallery, Elie, Fife, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Gold Gallery, Edinburgh, SSA (Society of Scottish Artists), Edinburgh

2002 Gold Gallery, Edinburgh, RGI (Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts), Glasgow, Redleaf Gallery, Tunbridge Wells

2001 Redleaf Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh

1999 Montage Gallery, Castleton, North Yorkshire, RSA, Edinburgh

1998 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

1997 The Sun and Doves, London

1996 Demarco Foundation, Edinburgh

1995 SSA, Edinburgh

1993 SAAC (Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsmen), Edinburgh

1992 Compass Gallery, Glasgow

1990 Wigmore Hall, London