Ruth Harries

In 2006 Ruth was awarded the title of 'Welsh Artist of the Year'. Statement - These works are part of an ongoing series, which consider aspects of my Welsh ‘Identity’ and the use of the Welsh language through the generations of my family.

 

 

 

 

They draw from personal responses to motherhood; my relationship with my daughter and our initial experiences and emotions to her attending school; our learning a new language and everyday life

 

 

In classroom pieces, I consider the demise of the blackboard and once again enjoy and celebrate the quality of the layered mark- making of the chalk lines; their repeated erasure and defined re-emergence, like the language itself. The diverse qualities of mark- making produced by painting, drawing and writing are all here considered in stitch.

I find Ruth Harries' work very intersting because i find it on a constant level of youth, yet i find it dark and dull which is what a childhood should not be.
If I ever met Ruth Harries I would like to ask her what she was thinking and feeling at the time of creating these pieces.