At male er at ”fortælle” verden - som den måske aldrig er blevet fortalt før.
Jeg har arbejdet som billedkunstner siden 1990, hvor jeg blev elev hos kunstneren Grethe Bagge. Det var hende som for alvor åbnede mine øjne for maleriet og gav mig mod til at bevæge mig ind i denne verden. Jeg har senere fået undervisning hos Mable Rose og Ulla Mørch samt deltaget i kurser på kunsthøjskolerne i Holbæk, Thorstedlund og Ærø.
Mine motiver er mangfoldige. Naturen med dens farver og former. Årstidernes skiften, vejret, lyset - at opleve og fastholde en stemning. Maleriet kan være naturalistisk eller jeg arbejder med overgangen mellem det genkendelige og et mere abstrakt formsprog.
Naturbillederne er enkle at gå til. De skal ikke forstås, men umiddelbart sanses og gerne bringe erindringer frem til overfladen.
Andre billeder kræver en aflæsning af historien, som ofte er flertydig.
Jeg har altid en forestilling om hvad jeg vil male, men undervejs opstår der tanker og følelser, og billedet får måske en ny drejning - en fugl sniger sig ind eller noget bliver malet væk igen.
Inspirationen kommer mange steder fra. Det kan være andre kunstnere, fx Rodins gribende skulptur ”Borgerne fra Calais”, eller ventetiden på en metrostation eller en pige med en mobiltelefon. Ofte bliver det til en serie malerier.
Jeg arbejder med olie. akryl, akvarel og tusch. De forskellige materialer byder på forskellige muligheder og udfordringer.
Jeg er ofte i gang med flere billeder på samme tid.
Ruth Jensen is a danish artist in the professional scenery since the 1989. Jensen makes the pictorial matter, the sign and the colour as foundation of her paintings: nature, with its abstracted fruits and landscapes is the pretext of a painture that forgets, during the artistic process, the initial subject in the cromatic impetus and in the emotion of light exalting the subjects. Ruth reverses into her personally interpreted nature, a perceptive and perceptible structure, almost an existential relation between nature and life, not a rational connection but a total immersion and an overpowering emotional involment.
They are paintings free from any mediocre naturalistic residues even though almost intense softness remains suffused in the evocative rhythm of the light and colour effects, realizing that naturalistic abstraction the artist very often achieves.
For her natural inclination, Jensen prefers the oil painting but she also loves experimenting herself with the acrylic, the watercolour and the various materials added to her canvases. Ruth created her artistic heritage of rules and experiences thanks to her studies with talented masters like Grethe Bagge and Jan Hartmann Mogensen but followed by contiuous updatings and personal widenings.
It´s impossible descibing through an unique detailed term Ruth Jensen artworks; they are paintings of powerful visual impact which can´t be defined neither figurative nor abstract and even less narrative but they rather are mystic and symbolic results of impulses and travels of a dreamy mind but also of a sensitive mind to the known natural sceneries seen and at their fructs organized by Ruth on the canvases, with great refinement and delicacy.
Paola Trevisan, kurator Italien 2006
They are paintings free from any mediocre naturalistic residues even though almost intense softness remains suffused in the evocative rhythm of the light and colour effects, realizing that naturalistic abstraction the artist very often achieves.
For her natural inclination, Jensen prefers the oil painting but she also loves experimenting herself with the acrylic, the watercolour and the various materials added to her canvases. Ruth created her artistic heritage of rules and experiences thanks to her studies with talented masters like Grethe Bagge and Jan Hartmann Mogensen but followed by contiuous updatings and personal widenings.
It´s impossible descibing through an unique detailed term Ruth Jensen artworks; they are paintings of powerful visual impact which can´t be defined neither figurative nor abstract and even less narrative but they rather are mystic and symbolic results of impulses and travels of a dreamy mind but also of a sensitive mind to the known natural sceneries seen and at their fructs organized by Ruth on the canvases, with great refinement and delicacy.
Paola Trevisan, kurator Italien 2006
Et kig ind i mit værksted.
Ruth Jensen - Galleri 90 -- moderne malerier