Ruth Oinn

I trained as a printmaker at The Cambridge Curwen Print Study Centre in 2011.  Since then I have had a number of solo exhibitions in Cambridge and East Anglia. I  exhibited with Cambridge Original Printmakers in 2016 and 2018 and my work has also been shown at Cambridge Contemporary Arts, The Babylon Gallery, Ely and Church Street Gallery, Saffron Walden. I am an enthusiastic member of my local art group, Saffron Walden Art Society, and I enjoy helping to promote art in the local community. I was delighted to be accepted as a member of CDS in 2019.

I am interested in the correlation between the layering process that is intrinsic to printmaking and how language and music can portray many layers of meaning. Over the years I have created work inspired by poetry, opera and lieder. During Covid, like many people, I walked my home town and this led eventually to a body of work entitled Home Ground. In my work I concentrate on relief, drypoint and collage, creating unique prints from combinations of techniques. My prints are based on ideas which are often expressed through images of the natural world, and sit between abstract and realism. I work from my studio in Saffron Walden, using a Rollaco Boxer press.

Although a lot of thought goes into my designs I am quite content for the viewer to see in them some entirely different meaning. It is important to me that the works I create are interesting and thought provoking and I hope they are also beautiful.

Website: printsbyruth.com