Ruth Addinall is a contemporary painter and sculptor who lives and works in Edinburgh. Her work has been regularly exhibited since the 1990s, when she discovered her passion for art relatively late and rather by chance. It was while attending an art history seminar as part of her Romance studies that she first became intensively involved with artists from different eras and movements-whereupon a whole new world revealed itself to her. Addinall quickly developed an interest in being artistically active herself and began to produce her first paintings and sculptures. At first she worked as a self-taught artist for several years. Later she took up studies at the Frinck School of Sculpture in Paris. In addition, she is active as a piano teacher.
Addinall's repertoire includes representational painting as well as still lifes with floral motifs, landscape scenes, and portraits. The subjects of her figurative paintings feature single depictions of people, often women, conveying impressions of intimate thoughtfulness and worldly seclusion. Addinall is primarily interested in the mundanities of our existence and how we shape our external realities of life through internal worlds of feeling and thought. Her characters are portrayed in ordinary situations where they seem lost in thought and turned inward, completely cut off from the outside world: Writing, reading, drinking coffee, smoking, or waiting at the bus stop. Surreal body proportions, which in stylized form evoke an almost static physical appearance, emphasize the contemplative character of the works. Addinall's painterly work also reveals her fascination with sculpture through her use of sculptural-like forms.
Although Addinall expresses an interest in experimenting with different styles of art, she has undoubtedly developed a distinctive, original artistic style that conveys, in a contemporary manner, the intimate, lost-in-thought states of her own inner world.
As for her perception of art and the intention of her personal creative work, she leaves it to a statement by the German artist Max Beckmann. In his "Letter to a Painter" he describes the work of artists as a "disciplined frenzy" that springs from a "fantasy palace of art". This palace, according to Addinall, allows one to escape the confines of the outer world and draw from the infinite expanses of the inner.
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