Ruth Crotty

Landscape and nature have always been an inspiration for Ruth’s painting. Rural
landscape provides a visual stimulus from the effects of light on color and texture.
These are the painting elements that Ruth chooses to focus on. Highlights and
shadows on farm fields and buildings create the compositional shapes, texture and
color in her paintings. The diversity and beauty of fields, mountains and forests of
Saratoga, Washington and Rensselaer counties give her the opportunity to explore
these more formal elements of her work.

Ruth Crotty, a native of New City, New York, painted since she received
her first box of oil paints at age 10. Ruth continued her interest in art by
majoring in painting and receiving a BFA from Tyler School of Art,
Philadelphia, PA in 1969. She has made Plein Air paintings for the past 20
years, while continuing to paint studio pieces. Crotty’s paintings are
about change, capturing a momentary mood, while all else is in flux.
Ruth has painted and shown in upstate New York since 1992, and
received many awards from the juried shows that she has participated in.
She resides in Saratoga Springs, NY, and belongs to art councils and
organizations in Saratoga, Albany, Warren and Franklin Counties.