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.
