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Ruth paints with oil paint, a classical medium that she uses in her own intuitive way.
Freedom within her medium, subject and artistry are of great importance to her.
Her paintings are in the area between abstraction and figuration, sometimes leaning to one side, sometimes the other.
Painting is conceived as an adventure with no predetermined outcome.
The work is bathed in a dreamy, quiet atmosphere, sometimes funny, often mysterious.
Ruth has always drawn a lot. Diary notes, quick sketches of shapes and colours, sometimes merely marks. These sketches may become a starting point for a painting. However, during the process – which is slow, as she work with oil paint – the image often transforms into something different. The act of painting leads to new shapes and colours. A work of Ruth is never conceived but rather grows organically, just like a fruit or a flower builds up until it’s ready to pick. Each step she takes is an intuitive one. To her, each image – abstract or not – is a creature with a soul, a personality.
Someone said: ‘It is not difficult to make friends with the work of Ruth van Haren Noman’
Freedom within her medium, subject and artistry are of great importance to her.
Her paintings are in the area between abstraction and figuration, sometimes leaning to one side, sometimes the other.
Painting is conceived as an adventure with no predetermined outcome.
The work is bathed in a dreamy, quiet atmosphere, sometimes funny, often mysterious.
Ruth has always drawn a lot. Diary notes, quick sketches of shapes and colours, sometimes merely marks. These sketches may become a starting point for a painting. However, during the process – which is slow, as she work with oil paint – the image often transforms into something different. The act of painting leads to new shapes and colours. A work of Ruth is never conceived but rather grows organically, just like a fruit or a flower builds up until it’s ready to pick. Each step she takes is an intuitive one. To her, each image – abstract or not – is a creature with a soul, a personality.
Someone said: ‘It is not difficult to make friends with the work of Ruth van Haren Noman’
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