Ruth was trained at Manchester Collage of Art and Design in Illustration/Graphic Design. Although she has followed a different career, Ruth has always been involved in art and has carried out various commissions including book illustration, design work, and murals. She has dabbled along many creative avenues such as sculpture, jewellery and pottery. Since moving to Malvern from London Ruth has concentrated more on painting.

Ruth's work is quite varied - she is still experimenting and it all depends on what intrigues her at the time. Sometimes it is the effects of light, whether subtle, contrasting or back lit for example; sometimes it is the challenge of handling complicated and intricate detail; sometimes cutting loose with swathes of colour; sometimes the arrangement and intersection of shapes and sometimes many of these in the same painting.