Gabrielle Ruffle @ Tobacco Factory

Gabrielle Ruffle’s focus is on landscape painting using oils on canvas and chalk drawings. Her landscapes are based on snapshots of places she has visited such as London, New York, Manchester and Hong Kong as well as her home towns of Merseyside and Bristol. The common theme of the paintings is an abundance of colour and light, painting the different colours of the skies in many weather conditions. She enjoys painting from different perspectives and playing around with the traditional landscape format. The result is an image which is reminiscent of the original location, but dreamlike and abstracted.