RUTH  DODD  artist

I studied interior design at the National Art School East Sydney (4 years) under some notable teachers, Phyllis Shillito: colour & design; Herbert Badham: perspective and Thomas Gleghorn & Roy Fluke: painting.

 

I practiced as an interior designer with the NSW Government for a year or so before moving into the field of cartography at the Division of National Mapping, now Geoscience Australia. I was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2002 Queen's Birthday Honours List for, ‘her contribution to major national mapping and atlas programs’.

 

On retirement I, and my husband, moved to a 9.5 ha lot in the Yass Valley in the NSW Southern Highlands.  My work has been influenced by the dry sclerophyll forests, the natural and agricultural grasslands.  Our acreage is a source of wonder with a large number of birds and animals which provide many hours of enjoyment and inspiration. 

 

My genre is representational art and I work from close observation of a subject and use colour to dramatise what I see and feel to be its essential elements.

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Commissions are a specialty.