Cheryl Ruddock
Cheryl Ruddock is a painter from Guelph, Ontario, Canada. For more than twenty years, she has been using, exploring, and pushing the boundaries of colour, as well as certain recurring symbols, such as female clothing and botanicals.
Be it the bending neck of a lady slipper, dried flowers, a woman's body, or an empty dress, Ruddock never romanticizes her subject, but shows it caught, exposed, and sometimes in distress.
Her work stands on the border of abstraction: a balancing act that testifies to the strength and endurance of her subjects, whose lives are balancing acts themselves.
Ruddock works in oil on canvas and gouache on handmade paper. She also works with master printer Stu Oxley at the Riverside Press to create monoprints.
She is represented by XEXE Gallery in downtown Toronto, by Harbinger Gallery in Waterloo, Ontario, and by Renann Isaacs, art consultant.
Her paintings belong to numerous private and corporate collections in Canada and the United States. They belong to the following public collections, among others: Art Gallery of Hamilton; The Canada Council Art Bank; Glenhyrst, the Art Gallery of Brant; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Macdonald Stewart Art Centre; and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery. Among the corporate collections to aquire her work are OMERS Canada and The Royal Bank of Canada.
