Statement
The Radio’s Ugly Mouth was painted from life during the first lockdown and shows our thirteen year-old son Charlie with beautiful fresh beetroots on our kitchen table, but notice his worried face as he listens to the radio’s daily statistics; and how one beetroot is sliced and leaking red juice onto the plate…
Lockdown Haircut was painted a few weeks after The Radio’s Ugly Mouth is a self-portrait as I cut my seventeen year-old son’s hair. As he said ‘My haircut still matters and helps to keep body and soul together’.
Both paintings appear in my publication The Leaves of Lockdown with an essay by the Art Historian, Phillip Van.
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The Leaves of Lockdown Thompson’s Gallery, Aldeburgh 2020
Desire Paths. Tweeddale Gallery, Peebles 2019
Rhubarb and Rockpools. Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 2019
Behold This, Dreamer! Gallagher and Turner. Newcastle 2018
Dreaming of Scotland, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 2017
Nocturnal Swimmer and other new paintings, Tanner & Lawson, London 2016
Love Letters, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne 2015
Sea Salt & Sourdough, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 2015
The Night Swimmer, University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne 2014
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Agent: Lucy Juckes, Jenny Brown Associates, Edinburgh.
Galleries:
The Open Eye Gallery. Edinburgh
Godfrey & Watt. Harrogate
Gallagher and Turner. Newcastle upon Tyne
SELECTED PAINTING AWARDS
Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Awards
- Mother of Four, Purchased by the Ruth Borchard Collection 2011
Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Awards
- Eggs, Exhibited, Kings Place Gallery 2017
Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Awards
- In the Kitchen, Exhibited, Kings Place Gallery2015/Pallant House Gallery 2016
Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Awards
- Baking Sour Dough, Exhibited Kings Place Gallery, London 2013
The People Show, University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
- The Darkest Day, First Prize 2005
- Bridge Street, First Prize 2001
