Artist Statement
Ruth Peel has spent a lifetime working in stitch and textiles exploring innovative ways of using materials and techniques to depict her themes.  They are often an amalgamation of drawing, painting, printing, photography, stitch and Photoshop.

She is interested in creating pieces that can be unsettling and perplexing concerning the unconscious and the surreal.  She uses unusual juxtapositions that are visual metaphors that attempt to explore an idea or theme.

Currently she is working with ideas relating to landscapes, seascapes and journeys, to create an undercurrent that gives the work an ambivalent element.

Qualifications
FdA Stitched Textiles (Merit) – University of Winchester

Membership
Society of Designer Craftsmen – Licentiate member

Exhibitions
2018     ‘Passions’ at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts, Chichester
2018     ‘Random Selection’ at Hanger Farm, Southampton
2017     ‘A Touch of Red’ at the ICHF Event, Birmingham
2017     ‘A Touch of Red’ at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts, Chichester
2016     ‘Crossing Boundaries’ at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts, Chichester
2016     ‘Tides of Change’ at the d.@rt Centre, Hedge End, Southampton
2015     ‘Tides of Change’ at the National Needlework Archive, Newbury