Ruth LaGue

High Desert, Abstract Painting

2020

Artist Comments
Artist Ruth LaGue used striking high contrast colors of the high desert to bring this landscape to life. The clear blue sky provides a stark contrast to the rugged hills below. Ruth worked with brushes and palette knives to create texture and depth in this adventurous scene.

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: landscape, abstract, desert, hills, mountain, road, trail, abstract, landscape, non-representational, acrylic painting, green

High Desert
Ruth LaGue
Acrylic painting on composite board
Natural wood edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2020
12 in. h x 12 in. w x .75 in. d
0 lbs. 6 oz.