Ruth Greenwood

Artist statement

Ruth Greenwood is a London%u2011based printmaker whose work draws deeply on the quiet poetry of domestic space. Trained in aquatint and full%u2011colour etching, and shaped by an earlier career as a costume technician in theatre and television, Greenwood brings a meticulous, tactile sensibility to every composition. Her still%u2011life pieces are grounded in observation but elevated by an emotional undercurrent %u2014 a sense that each object carries its own history, weight, and presence.Working with inherited tools and traditional printmaking processes, Greenwood builds images that feel both intimate and timeless. Fruit, vessels, flowers, and everyday arrangements become sites of contemplation: studies in colour, texture, and the subtle choreography of light. Her still lifes are not simply depictions of objects, but meditations on care, memory, and the rituals of looking.Greenwood%u2019s compositions often centre on the overlooked %u2014 the curve of a pear, the bloom on a grape, the soft collapse of a petal %u2014 inviting viewers to slow down and inhabit the moment. Through her layered techniques and painterly approach to etching, she creates works that honour the lineage of still%u2011life art while asserting a distinctly contemporary voice.In Greenwood%u2019s hands, the familiar becomes luminous. Her prints celebrate the beauty of the everyday and the quiet power of objects arranged with intention, offering a space where domesticity, craftsmanship, and personal history meet.

Biography

I became a member of Greenwich Printmakers Association in July 2025 and I am a member East London Printmakers. I have exhibited my work in the following group exhibitions; Lambeth Archive - Sisterhood - Group exhibition with SLWA, Brixton, London 2026The Gallery at Green & Stone Works On Paper, Chelsea, London 2026East Dulwich Picturehouse - Group exhibition with SLWA, Dulwich, London 2025Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculpturers and Gravers, Bankside Gallery, London 2025Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Thames-side Print Studio, 2025Southbank Printmakers Mini print exhibition, Gabriels Wharf, London 2025Ironbridge Fine Arts Open Print Exhibition, Ironbridge 2025Woolwich Contemporary Print Summer Fair with Thames-side Print Studio, 2025Derby Open Print Exhibition, Derby 2025The Gallery at Green & Stone Works On Paper, Chelsea, London 2025Southbank Printmakers Mini print exhibition, Gabriels Wharf, London 2024Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Thames-side Print Studio, 2024SMAG Arts, Blackheath 2024Ironbridge Fine Arts Open Print Exhibition, Ironbridge 2024Derby Open Print Exhibition, Derby 2024The Gallery at Green & Stone, Works on Paper, Chelsea, London 2024Southbank Printmakers Mini print exhibition, Gabriels Wharf, London 2023Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Thames-side Print Studio, 2023SMAG Arts, Blackheath 2023Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Thames-side Print Studio, 2022SMAG Arts, Blackheath 2022Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Thames-side Print Studio, 2021Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Thames-side Print Studio, 2020 OnlineWoolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Thames-side Print Studio, 2019Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Thames-side Print Studio, 2018Theatre Museum, Covent Garden 1994, Graduation ShowSolo Exhibition: Local Library, Doncaster, South Yorkshire 1985, Exhibition of my 'O' level course work and self-commissioned paintings, Illustrations and costumesSheffield Evening Post Newspaper, Article about my exhibition at my local Library.