Ruth LaGue

On the Wire, Original Painting

2023

Artist Comments
In her signature style, artist Ruth LaGue paints a barn and silo with minimal intervention. Inspired by the shapes and patterns of the landscape, she draws the viewer's attention through linear slopes. Ruth captures the rhythm of sunlight, forms, and shadows cast by the cool rays of light. She offers a fresh perspective with a field mapping the terrain in bold blue and green tones and a utility post dividing the composition near the center.

About the Artist
In her abstracted landscape paintings, Ruth LaGue pares composition down to its barest form. Through simple color, line and form, landscapes are invoked, rather than detailed. Ruth adjusts the placement of the horizon line in her paintings to suggest a range of natural formations. She stretches form, line and color to their limits, providing the least amount of visual information needed to understand the landscape. Her color palette is nuanced and each color is distinctly her own. She is deeply influenced by her childhood in Alaska and her travels to India. While in India, she found an indelible connection between the vast, wild landscape of her childhood and the limitless internal landscape of the soul. Ruth’s beautifully simplified landscapes become metaphors for the spiritual or otherworldly realms inherent in both nature and in the self.

Words that describe this painting: barn, country, countryside, sky, peaceful, serene, field, sun, cool, building, farm, grass, small, acrylicpaint, architecture, silo, horizon, modern, architecture, modern , acrylic painting, blue

On the Wire
Ruth LaGue
Acrylic painting on paper
Natural wood edges
Varnished and Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2023
12 in. h x 12 in. w
1 lbs. 0 oz.