Meet Ruth Fiege

Ruth Fiege is an Acrylic painter, Collage/Assemblage artist, and has an addiction to creating sketchbooks/visual journals.  

Ruth was an art teacher from 1985 until the spring of 2010.  She is now pursuing her dream by creating art full-time. She graduated with a BA in Art Education from High Point University. Her work can be found in many private collections and in several publications.

Although she now lives in Colorado, Ruth was raised in the DC area and New Jersey. She has also lived in lots of other places including London, Iceland, Japan, California, Texas, Maryland, Iowa, and Missouri. She also has a house in Taos, New Mexico. The experience of different places and cultures has had a huge influence on her work.

An avid collector, she fills her life with old stuff and junk. She also accumulates Madonna and religious art, tin buildings, numbers, doll dressers, and vintage signs. She believes in “the weirder the better”. She is known to pick up stuff anywhere, including trash bins and dumpsters. You can see the influence of the collecting bug in many of her art pieces. She loves the idea that the objects in her pieces have the patina of time on their surfaces, and the people who have owned them in their soul. She also believes that the nostalgic feel to her work creates a connection with the viewer.

You can follow her adventures as an artist on her blog, ruthfiege.blogspot.com, or see more of her work on her website, ruthfiege.com