Artist: Ruth Addinall

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Ruth Addinall lives and works in Edinburgh.  She started painting in the late 1980’s and her work is mainly oils on canvas, wood, board and paper.  Generally figurative, her paintings are often quite stylised.  Ruth also sculpts and teaches the piano.

‘I moved house a couple of years ago and have my first garden.  This has led to a deepening interest in birds.  Both their physical beauty and the beauty of their songs draw me.  They are infinitely various once you start to look and they make wonderful subjects, whether painting from life or inventing, both of which I do.  I like to think of them as symbols of the spirit too, with their gift of flight and their miraculous song.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010   ‘Call of the Wild’, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
2009   European Commission, London
          Flat Cat Gallery, Lauder
2008   Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh
          Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh
2007   Florence Biennale, Florence
          Flaubert, Edinburgh
2006   Gallery Gora, Montreal
          Artdecaf, Glasgow
          St Andrews Pottery, St Andrews
2005   Just Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
          Dalkeith Arts Centre
          Iona House Gallery, Oxfordshire
          David Young gallery, Edinburgh
2004   Bridgeman Art Library - Contemporary Artist
2003   Cambridge Contemporary Arts
          Wade Gallery, Fife
          Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
          Gold Gallery, Edinburgh
          SSA, Edinburgh
2002   Gold Gallery, Edinburgh
          RGI, Glasgow
2001   Redleaf Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
          Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh
1999   Montage Gallery, N. Yorkshire
          RSA, Edinburgh
1998   Queens Hall, Edinburgh
1997   The Sun and Doves, London
1996   Demarco Foundation, Edinburgh
1995   SSA, Edinburgh
1993   SAAC, Edinburgh
1992   Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1990   Wigmore Hall, London