Ruth Green

Artist and designer Ruth Green was born in Staffordshire in the early 1970s. She was inspired towards an artistic career at a very young age by an inspirational teacher in her primary school called John Cartwright, who was hugely enthusiastic about art and created fantastic illustrations for the children on the blackboard during his lessons. She holds a degree in Textiles Design and a Masters, also in Textiles, which she completed in the 1990s. Her creations are principally etchings, screen prints and paintings. The etchings generally have horticultural themes and embrace stylised plant forms with simple lines; the screen prints are more light-hearted illustrations, with animals, birds and decorative flowers, and her paintings are mostly abstract, geometric shapes or simple forms such as vessels. Ruth Green is particularly interested in mid 20th century design, especially glass and ceramics from Scandinavia. Her paintings involve a modified `monoprint` technique under which oil paint is rolled out onto a glass surface and then transferred onto the work. The paper is pressed onto the paint and burnished with a roller. Sometimes though the paint is rolled directly onto the painting, using stencils to control the application. She also makes drypoint etchings, collographs and silk screen prints. Her work has been exhibited around the UK and she has received an Individual Artists Grant from the Arts Council. Ruth Green's hobbies include gardening; she is a keen allotment holder, growing a lot of her own food.