These paintings explore walking and paint. The slow physical act of walking the ground and the equally physical act of making a painting: sourcing pigments, stretching canvas, priming grounds and painting a flat surface to make the physical presence of a painting.
These have occupied Ruth in her work in both a philosophical and a material sense. Her paintings are concerned with colour, light and surface and aim to convey a sensory experience through abstraction. The materiality of the paint and the process itself interplay, with the paintings becoming a record revealing condensed histories in their surfaces.
Westminster Reference Library, 35 St Martin's Street, London, WC2H 7HP
Opening view on Tuesday 1 August with a discussion on the subject of Contemporary Abstraction with Wen Wang (Yantai Art Museum, China) and painters Julian Brown and Ruth Philo starting at 6pm.
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