About Ruth

Ruth is an Australian painter who works primarily in oil paints on linen or board. She often sketches in pencil, graphite or chalk before launching into paint. Ruth enjoys loose mark making with the inspiration to continue working in this manner, often describing her work as feeling that she is drawing in paint.

Ruth is also influenced and inspired by the Australian landscape and the people in it. With enough subject matter in both genres to paint until she can no longer do so!

Ruth was longlisted in March 2026 in the Jackson’s Art Prize, London UK to the final 6% of total entries worldwide. She hopes and intends to make it to the shortlist in the near future. Ruth also enters into art prizes within Australia aiming to one day claim a prize that she is proud of.

Finalist Art Prizes;

~The Doyles Art Award, Mudgeeraba, QLD Figurative section (2026, 2025, 2023, 2022) and entered the Landscape section successfully as a finalist in 2021 and 2022.

~Dean Cogle Portrait Prize, Currumbin, QLD 2025 and 2023.

~Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Sydney 2023

~9×5 Landscape Prize, Sydney, NSW 2021 and 2022

~Hawkesbury Art Prize, Freemans Reach, NSW 2021

Group exhibitions and sold works through;

~The Corner Store Gallery, Orange, NSW 2024, 2023, 2022

~Group, Self Curated Exhibition at Small Works Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW 2022

~The Toowoomba Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD 2021

Ruth recently had her first solo exhibition ‘Paddocks and Places’ at Art Post Uki in Uki, northern NSW. This was a huge success and almost a sell out. Opening night the gallery space was full and the exhibition remained a success for the duration of the show, selling 11 out of her 14 paintings. Ruth was overwhelmed from the support and positive feedback on her exhibition.

Ruth grew up in central west New South Wales in a rural community on 35 acres. She studied at the National Art School, Sydney, graduating in 1999 with a Bachelor of fine arts. Ruth lived in Japan from 1999-2001 teaching English before returning home to study nursing at QUT, Brisbane, graduating in 2004. Ruth settled on the southern Gold Coast in 2012 with her husband. She has a family and paints around life as a mother, partner and working part time as a Registered Nurse in the operating theatres at the Tweed Valley Hospital.

Ruth is currently painting new landscapes and portraits.

If you are interested in Ruth’s work please reach out and contact her.

Recent testimonials will be posted on this new website soon!