about the artist

Ruth Lee was, until retirement, an associate lecturer at Cumbria Institute of the Arts (Carlisle, UK).  She is now a full-time fibre artist, international tutor, writer and knitted textile designer.

Ruth is passionate about moving knit forward as a challenging and relevant working method within contemporary fibre arts practice.

She is interested in how ideas evolve through the making process, and the symbiotic relationship between materials, processes and ideas.


When not teaching or travelling, she resides with her partner Mick Pearce in rural north Cumbria.

Although she was born and raised in the City of Coventry, she finds the English border country, with its ever-changing skies and rugged but beautiful landscape, a peaceful and inspirational place in which to live and work. She has a cabin studio apart from the house and spends most of her creative hours there.