Cheryl Ruddock

Cheryl Ruddock is a painter from Guelph, Canada, who has been exhibiting widely for over 20 years. ​Her practice has always explored and pushed the boundaries of colour. Her figurative subjects include recurring mythic symbols, such as the female form, empty clothing, and dessicated botanicals; her subjects also include abstract strata such as the grid and the color field.

Ruddock's paintings dissolve the border of abstraction in a balancing act that has images both emerging in the foreground and receding in the background, materializing and de-materializing into colour. This sets the stage for multiple—harmonious and conflicting—readings.

Ruddock typically works with oil on canvas or acrylic on canvas, including shaped canvas bound to wooden forms. Periodically, she creates monoprints with master printer Stu Oxley at the Riverside Press, in Elora, Ontario.​ 

Her paintings belong to public, private, and corporate collections across Canada and the United States.

A career survey of her work was held at the Macdonald Stewart Art Center, in 2011. 

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