Ruth LaGue Paintings

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Artist Ruth LaGue paints a pastoral landscape with a white barn partially concealed by trees. Inspired by the shapes and patterns of a field of flowers, Ruth dr...

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Artist Ruth LaGue shows a view of a barn and silo painted in an impressionist fashion. Inspired by the shapes and patterns of the landscape, she draws the viewe...

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Artist Ruth LaGue paints an impressionist landscape of the lush countryside. A glimpse of a white barn with a turquoise roof emerges from the stand of trees in ...

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Artist Ruth LaGue presents an impressionist black barn with a prominent pink roof. Inspired by the shapes and patterns of the landscape, she draws the viewer's ...

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Artist Ruth LaGue presents a sunlit barn on a clear cloudless day. Inspired by the shapes and patterns of the building, Ruth draws the viewer's attention to its...

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Artist Ruth LaGue paints a lone boat on still ocean waters. The watercraft drifts along unperturbed, barely creating ripples on the surface. Using a palette kni...

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Artist Ruth LaGue shares an idyllic landscape of the lush countryside. Two red barns and a silo stand abreast of verdant trees in the background. Inspired by th...

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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 ...

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Ruth LaGue expresses an arrangement of two red poppies in a yellow ceramic vase. A lone petal falls onto the table's surface adding a dramatic touch. Ruth uses ...

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Artist Ruth LaGue used striking high contrast colors of the high desert to bring this landscape to life. The clear blue sky provide...

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Artist Ruth LaGue balanced the wide-open peach-hued fields of this Italian landscape with additions of orange, blue, and green. The far horizon is marked with...

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An abstract view of green rolling hills and a lake, inspired by the Lake District in England. "I made use of a vibrant purple underpainting, which enhances the greens and blues of the rough textured landscape," says artist Ruth LaGue. She created the scene with brushes and palette knives to build texture and depth.

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, hills, lake, England, UK, Britain, abstract, landscape, non-representational, acrylic painting, green

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A long pathway stretches to the horizon on a dreamy summer day on Cape Cod. Rendered with brushes and palette knives, artist Ruth Lague shares, "This painting...