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Ruby’s career has been varied, but always creative and for a number of years she was a landscape architect & garden designer. She arrived in NZ from Britain in 2008. She attended art school at age 18. However, her career at that time took a different path, but now 21 years later she was surprised to discover she is still enthused by many of the same things in her art such as surface & pattern.
She currently paints using mixed media on canvas & recycled furniture; she is fascinated in the materiality of paint, how it moves, mixes, drips, runs and almost seems to have a life of its own. She also uses spray paint & stencils to aid layering & pattern creation creating a great depth to her work. Colour also plays an important role in her work, choosing bright eye catching colours to create a visual cacophony that sings out to the viewer.
The furniture painting comes from an inquiry into how 2d wraps around 3d. This combines with her love of sustainability/reuse and the rich history of old furniture. Her work breathes new life into the old creating not just something beautiful, but now once again useful.
Most recently a series of work has been inspired by a newspaper article that sparked an enquiry into how the world views women, including how women view themselves. How mass media feeds women images of perfection & how insidious the messages we receive as women are to our psyche.
Ruby also has a passion for printmaking in many forms, using a flat bed etching press and more recently she has discovered screen-printing. Ruby recently set up the Waitakere Printers Inc., a printmaking group who meet once a month at Corbans to come together as a group of like minded enthusiasts to share ideas and knowledge, and to use the large etching press, which most of us couldn’t possibly afford to buy personally. Ruby has enjoyed the opportunity she has created to teach adult classes in various printing methods at Corbans. The group it is hoped will promote what today has unfortunately become almost a lost art form, especially in Waitakere.
Email: ruby.red.moon@gmail.com
Mobile: 021 233 9726
Web: rubyoakleyart.yolasite.com
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