About Ruth Sussler

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Ruth has come from a childhood surrounded by artists, absorbing influences from the arts of many time periods and cultures. Beginning in the studio of her father Philip Lyford, who was a commercial artist & magazine illustrator, she has since found her voice through the years while taking up all manner of subject matter. Ongoing are her florals and still life arrangements, portraits, landscapes & shorescapes, interiors & renderings of clients' surroundings.

Her style has echoes from Chinese, Japanese, early American folk art-forms, and the Luminist and Hudson River Schools of painting... Her sensibility reflects humor, irony, joy & fascination with the infinite forms & beauty of the ordinary as well as with heroic & universal themes which she couches in settings of contemporary imagery.

Academic studies include her fellowship to Black Mountain College where she was a student of Josef Albers & Jean Charlot. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Bennington College, as a visual arts major, studying with Paul Feeley & Simon Moselsio.

Since 1950, she began her career as a professional painter. She has garnered a considerable following and many prizes while exhibiting in numerous invitational & juried Connecticut venues. Her work is represented in regional museums & is commissioned and sought by discerning private collectors.

Ruth lives & works in her home & studio in New London, Connecticut.