Ruth Burden b 1925

Holme Lacey Hereford

Oil on Canvas

71x61cm

Ruth Burden was an artist and teacher. She was born and finally settled in Worcester and studied at Birmingham College of Art, 1954-50, under Bernard Fleetwood-Walker and Katherine Fryer, then at Bath Academy of Art, 1950-1 with William Scott and Peter Potorowski. She was a gallery assistant at Worcester Art Gallery and taught in girls’ schools in Birmingham and Abingdon until 1972.

She has showed at the Women’s International Art Club, the Artists’ International Association, the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the New English Art Club and the Royal West of England Academy. Katherine House Gallery, Marlborough latterly exhibited her paintings and Duncan Campbell Contemporary Art gave her a solo show in 2000. Coventry Pictures for Schools hold examples of her work.

Burden painted buildings with figures, landscapes and still lifes in a richly individual palette. She named Christopher Wood and LS Lowry as influences on her painting, which could be endearingly quirky and which were also “influenced by surroundings and memories, subject matter close at hand – everywhere I look.”

Biography John Adams Fine Art Ltd London