Members of the Colborne Art Gallery Ruth Coleman Harding Ruth Coleman Harding has been painting all her life. She began selling portraits at the age of sixteen. She studied Fine Arts at McGill University with John Lyman, Arthur Lismer, Gordon Webber and John Fox. She received a B.F. A. with Distinction Ruth was born in Africa and her early adult years were spent in a number of countries bringing up three sons. She has lived and painted in Geneva Switzerland, Guyana, British Columbia, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, and has now settled in the Northumberland Hills where her husband plans to retire. During these years she worked steadily in the field of portraiture and that has continued to be a vital interest running parallel to her other work. In conjunction with painting she has followed an interest in art history and psychology and religion, which she has studied at Concordia University and the University of Toronto, and in a fifteen-year association with the C.G. Jung Foundation in Toronto. Her present work has evolved from those interests and studies. Her portraits employ the expressionist techniques that are also present in the landscape andmythological themes. The study of light and colour is free from traditional realism, time and space. Psychological and spiritual insights are conveyed by the formal, aesthetic aspects of the painting. Ruth Coleman Harding's work has been sold to collections in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Vancouver, Chicago, Boston, Bermuda, Johannesburg, Fontainbleau France, as well as to Canadian corporations and the University of Toronto. She has conducted classes in drawing and painting in Guyana, Montreal and North Hatley, Quebec.	Our Current Schedule Gallery Members A sampling of work by Ruth Coleman Harding (click icons for larger views)