After college, Ruth married and moved to New York and while she and her husband raised their two daughters, she took painting courses with Roger Hendricks at the State University of New York at Purchase, and with the late George Peter at the Westchester Art Workshop in White Plains.  In the 80's she  took a Masters Workshop in Art at Long Island University in Southampton. 

"The visual world explodes with color in every season of the year.

"The vibrancy and fluidity of oil paints, whether straight from the tube or mixed with other hues, affords me the opportunity to translate onto canvas the abundant richness I see and feel around me.

"To approach a white canvas, to move a color- laden brush on that surface and define and redefine one's inner vision is an exhilarating, challenging, frightening and exhausting experience.

"When I am absorbed in my painting, I'm unaware of the passage of time and the sounds around me.  I am thoroughly immersed in the creative process."

In the winter months, Ruth haunts the nurseries and greenhouses, camera and sketch pad in hand, and during the growing season she visits public and private gardens and brings live flowers into her studio to help her expand her interpretive renderings.