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Biography

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Ruth Mulvie is a contemporary fine artist, known for her vivid palette and for the delightfully unexpected detail in her paintings. Ruth works with oils to produce wild, fanciful dreamscapes where maximalism and color converge in a dopamine effect, where expectations are distorted and playfulness is abundant. Over the years comparisons have been made with Hockney.

After completing her BA hons in painting at Glasgow School of Art in 2002, Mulvie continued to produce work prolifically alongside part-time roles in a gallery and as an art teacher. She now paints full time.

She cherishes that visceral connection that Kodachrome™ gives us with our past. That single moment frozen in time that one can look at forever.  Old photographs are her initial inspiration for each new piece; a digital springboard atop which she dives into her latest delicious fantasy landscape. She works slowly, moving between several large canvases at a time. In contrast with her fluorescent palette and whimsical subject matter, the arrangement of Mulvie’s increasingly complex compositions are highly considered: there’s careful digital planning before the brush touches the canvas and she under-paints in acrylic and high flow ink. Yet her color work is deliberately playful and spontaneous: it is a puzzle to be solved in the moment.

In her paintings we are invited to join the most wonderful party or shared experience. Mulvie’s realms surprise and delight. Hers are playful, glamorous worlds with pure glee for oxygen. And in each we are granted a day in happy valley. 

At the heart of Mulvie’s pieces is the palpable joyfulness in her response to colour.  She is at her happiest when mixing and combining paint, waiting for the thrill of the perfect shade. For her, colour is emotion, colour is memory, colour is her favourite place to be. And we are all invited. There’s no place like it.

Her customers include the set designers of Ted Lasso – her work features in series two – and she has exhibited in galleries from Brighton to Belgium, and London to Los Angeles. She’s currently working on a series of large canvases which can be viewed at 10 Gresham Street, London between June and September, 2023.

Education

  • BA Hons Fine Art Painting Glasgow School of Art 1998-2002

  • Ecole des Beaux Arts (2000)

  • Currently working from Lancing, Sussex, UK

Exhibitions

  • In the Air, Brighton City Airport, Sussex, UK, May 2024

  • The Other art Fair Los Angeles, April 2024

  • The Other Art fair Brooklyn, November 2023

  • The Affordable art Fair London, October 2023,

  • The Other Art Fair London, October 2023

  • The Other art Fair Santa Monica, September 2023

  • The Great Escape Claire Knill x Ruth Mulvie Colonnade House , Worthing Nov 2022

  • The Other Art Fair London October 2022,

  • The Other Art Fair LA, September 2022,

  • Collective Project with Monty Preston, Saatchi Art Digital Curator, May 2022

  • Filtered Light, Solo Show Hove May 2022

  • The Other Avatars, NFTS Saatchi Art, January, 2022

  • The Other Art Fair London, 2022 March.

  • The Other Art Fair London, 2021 October.

  • The Great Escape, Colonnade House Worthing, 2021

  • The Other Art Fair LA, 2019 September.

  • Weather Lovely Food Great, Colonnade House, Worthing, June 2019

  • Water world, May, 2019, Hove,  Brighton

  • The Other Art Fair London, March, 2019

  • There's No Place Like It, Colonnade House, Worthing,  June 2018

  • Admirers, Brush, Gloucester Road, Brighton, May 2018

  • The Other Art Fair, London, Spring, 2018.

  • I360 Brighton – 

  • Garden of earthly Delight, Brunswick Square, Artists Open House Brighton, 2017

  •  Joyland, Gallery 40, Gloucester Road, Brighton, October 2016

  •  ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ Lava, Glasgow

  •  ‘Pleasure Delight’, Art House Hotel, Glasgow.

  • McGowan, Mulvie and Scott, Heinzel Gallery, Aberdeen

  • Cannes Art Fair, France, 2005

  • Glasgow Art Fair 2005

  •  ‘Love’, Ruth Mulvie and Hideko Inoue, Bazouges La Perouses, France

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