Ruth Thomas-Edmond

Ruth Thomas-Edmond is interested in how paint operates in two and three-dimensional form and produces drawings, paintings and sculptural works that reference "multiple landscapes and experiences, seen and sorted and later remembered".

Thomas-Edmond's work renews our wonder of the meandering journey and the particular passage that is the exploration of visual space. Her work operates at both the level of the map and the territory simultaneously, for she creates spaces while recording them. Yet because she generates her own territory, literally making her own terrain, she evades having to actually refer to any location or real place. The paintings are reminiscent, they resemble and they float like thought bubbles, ideas or memories... The work is imbued with aspects of our everyday lives; tracts of time, momentary tea breaks, interruptions and concentration. They hum, shiver, shimmer, vibrate and oscillate. James Robertson

Im interested in the way Thomas - Edmond using transparent pigment to create depth, texture and the history of what was left and what was covered in each work.  The forms are bold and stand out not just in colour but they give a sense that these forms hover over the paper, into space.