Ruth Formica
Whether I am in an urban setting or the rural countryside, I am determined to live in nature’s world-and my paintings reflect this. I am interested and inspired by the form and color of the natural world especially as found in plants and flowers, although I may choose not to paint them the way they probably look to other people. I may enhance or completely change their color, size, and gesture. I see the landscape with plants and flowers as very abstract, and this is what I like about painting from them. I feel free to arrange everything as I wish, and depict colors, lines and form as I wish. I want to be offline. I don’t want to look at images of flowers or paint realistic images, I want to “feel” the flowers, become them. I find as I go back and forth between a real flower, and a flower I have abstracted, I am engaged with possibilities. Sometimes I add fruit and the occasional bird, cat or garden fairy that may or may not be recognizable to the viewer. Water, fish and night skies also attract and inspire me and recently are sometimes also included.
Ruth Formica Resume

Pineapple Still Life, oil on canvas, 30" x 40" SOLD

Still Life with Goldfish, oil on canvas, 40" x 30" Available

California, It Was Just a Dream, oil on canvas, 36" x 48" Available

Here Kitty, Kitty, oil on canvas, 30" x 40" Available

West Coast Still Life, oil on canvas, 48" x 36" Available

Still Life with White Vase, oil on canvas, 30" x 40" Available

Still Life on the Terrace, oil on canvas, 40" x 30" Available

Lilacs, gouache on paper, 30" x 22" SOLD

Incoming Tide, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" SOLD

Seascape Violet and Green, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" Available

Seascape Pink and Green, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" SOLD

Seascape #8, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" Available

Seascape #3, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" Available

Tuesday, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" Available

Seascape in Blues and Gold, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" Available

Pineapple Still Life, oil on canvas, 30" x 40" SOLD

Still Life with Goldfish, oil on canvas, 40" x 30" Available

California, It Was Just a Dream, oil on canvas, 36" x 48" Available

Here Kitty, Kitty, oil on canvas, 30" x 40" Available

West Coast Still Life, oil on canvas, 48" x 36" Available

Still Life with White Vase, oil on canvas, 30" x 40" Available

Still Life on the Terrace, oil on canvas, 40" x 30" Available

Lilacs, gouache on paper, 30" x 22" SOLD

Incoming Tide, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" SOLD

Seascape Violet and Green, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" Available

Seascape Pink and Green, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" SOLD

Seascape #8, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" Available

Seascape #3, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" Available

Tuesday, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" Available

Seascape in Blues and Gold, watercolor on paper, 4" x 6" Available













It's a Beautiful Morning, watercolor & gouache on paper, 8" x 8" Available
Orchids Grow Outside Here, oil on canvas, 30" x 40" Available
Blue Jay Morning, oil on canvas, 30" x 40" Available
Still Life with Fruit, oil on canvas, 40" x 30" Available
Joy, oil on board, 24" x 24" Available
Flowers at Sunrise, oil on canvas, 20" x 16" Available
Still Life, gouache on paper, 11" x 7.75" Available
Sunday Flowers, gouache on paper, 10" x 8" SOLD
C'est Magique, gouache on paper, 5.5" x 7.75", Available