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Ron Ruble "Of Mountains and Elephants" Etching

 Welcome 

I am pleased that you are taking the time to visit my website. On the following pages I will give you a brief view of my life in art, more than 60 years and counting, along with my thoughts and the journey that it has taken. It is not in chronological order but I think that you can understand it and make it work. It has a difficulty of -0.

Pctured above is the image, "Of Mountains and Elephants". I post it here as my lead in image as it was the print that garnered me my first purchase prize in a National Juried Exhibition back in the 70's. It was a great ego boost and I was riding high as a result, strutting my stuff for quite a while after that. The print went on to receive several more purchase prizes by University and Museum collections.

I was fortunate to be awarded many such prizes for my work over the years, but it is impossible not to remember the very first and the feeling it gave me that maybe I really was an artist.

Enjoy your trip through my website. The site is a work in progress, so come on back once in awhile to see how I am doing. As I mentioned it is not in perfect order as it happened, but I am not sure that is important.

Let's start out with an artist statement, everyone has one. These can change at the drop of a hat, or just as soon as I can learn words that you can never decipher.

Artist Statement

My art is narrative, combining realistic imagery of a Symbolist nature with a touch of the Surreal. My drawings are developed for the most part from photographs cultivated from family albums, news media, the internet, or wherever I can find them. Any image that grabs my attention is adapted for my work. I seem to be drawn to images of a classical nature, putting several of them together somewhat like a collage, in settings that are ambiguous, even to me. I really don't seek to understand their meanings, but arrange them in compositions that seem to fit.

Recently I have been experimenting with mixed media works, combining drawings, photographs, manipulated computer images and also adding some collage elements. I do not burden myself with limits or rules. My goal is to get to the heart of my thought, to the final image, using any method or process that is available to me.

If I had advice to share, it would be this: don't hesitate to use whatever means are available to fulfill your vision. Noone owns the concept of art, or artistic processes. Take what you want, from wherever you find it, and build on it.

I hope that in the end that I have done good work.

 Ron Ruble "Two:2" Hand colored lithograph with collage elements

This print won a purchase prize in a recent Society of American Graphic Artists Exhibition in New York. You can see how things have changed over the years, compared to "Of Mountains and Elephants", but my imagery follows the same theme. There is always that magic archeological landscape in the background that keeps my work centered. I am saying that humankind are always searching, looking, finding and then moving on again. It is our destiny.

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