‘No Goodbyes’ is a brand new series and creative direction, embracing a more sustainable, slow practice, using handmade, foraged and/or eco-based materials from trusted companies. These new images welcome in a new era in Ruby’s art, inviting spiritual awakenings to take material form and using pigments, techniques and gentleness to create works that leave no harmful trace on our Earth.

After much research, Ruby has moved into honey-based watercolours, creating mixed media works out of chalk, rice bran crayon and coloured pencil. Other paints include homemade egg tempera, mixed with foraged stone pigment, and a heritage Swedish paint made from wheat, linseed oil and iron oxide. Working with natural paints in the studio has brought surprise and intrigue into the creation of her work, each piece having more texture and originality. Connecting to the whole life cycle of creating art, from its natural origin in the landscape, to the slow processing into paint, and finally its completed form, has been enriching and grounding experience for her. A holistic way to art-making.

Therefore with this new intention, the production of new works will be slower and more considered, conforming less to the fast paced capitalist demands of the art and interiors market. Each work is made with integrity, protecting the artist’s vision and energy.

‘No Goodbyes’ takes its name from the artist’s personal insight on grief, loss and sorrow. In a revelatory moment with plant magic, the finality of death and long-felt separation suddenly became illusionary for Ruby. Saying ‘goodbye’ to the mother she loves is not the whole story to the great mystery of life and the universe. There are hidden depths to connection, far greater than the conscious mind can perceive. As ever, the seminal works of William Blake continue to be of inspiration, including repeating forms in the nature and mind’s eye, and folk/ancestral art making.

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