Ruth graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008 and was the Derek
Hill Scholar at the British School at Rome. She received grants from
the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in 2021 and 2024 and won the
Jackson’s Painting Prize in 2020. She is an elected member of both
Contemporary British Painters and Contemporary British Portrait
Painters. In 2024 she was the International Women’s Resident, Barossa
Valley, Australia. Her work is in private and public collections
worldwide, including UNESCO’s Creative Cities Collection, Manchester
Art Gallery, and the Whitaker Museum.

Ruth has exhibited widely in Europe and the UK, with recent solo and
duo exhibitions including: Byron’s Pond at Garden Museum, London 2025;
Small Horse (w. Sarah Grant) at The Birley, Preston, Holding Time (w.
Linda Hemmersbach) at ARB, Cambridge University 2024; Black Pond at
The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth, 2022; Everything is Green at The
Whitaker Museum, Rossendale, 2022; The Green Ray at Bankley Gallery,
Manchester, 2021; The Blue Hour at The Old Bank, Manchester, 2019;
Good Morning Midnight at Elysium Gallery, Swansea, 2019.