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Ruth, although nominally Anglican, was a regular attender at Knox  Many in the congregation will remember that she was an accomplished artist.

In commemoration of the tenth anniversary of her death, a public exhibition of Ruth’s work will be held from Saturday, November 19 to Monday November 21 in Geneva Hall.  The show will include around fifty examples of her work in oils, water colours, pastels, and pen-and-ink. Subject matter includes landscapes, portraits, still-lifes, florals and wild-life.

Born in Winnipeg, her interest in art was shown while still in elementary school. The quality of her High School sketches and drawings was recognized by Moore Business Forms and she was hired, straight out of school at seventeen, as their second artist.  Following marriage in 1961 she continued her painting in Scotland, experimenting with various media, producing large, loose, bold watercolours, portraits in oil and pastel, incisive pencil sketches, and  landscapes in her favourite medium - oils. In 1963, at the Banff School of Fine Art, she studied with William Townsend of the Slade. And later in the 1970s she studied graphic arts, serigraphy and woodcut, at the Musée de Beaux Arts in Montréal.

The exhibition will be open from 10 a.m to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Monday, and from 12:15 p.m. (After service) to 5 p.m. on Sunday,  Come and enjoy her work.