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Ruth tait

@truthyart.bsky.social
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Visual artist artbyrt.com based in Ottawa Canada

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Ruth tait @truthyart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The plants in the illumination are ones that I saw at Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Dumoine River Artists Workshop (CPAWS DRAW) camp, photographing them and identifying them with iNaturalist and then rendering them in a sketchbook.  The script is a Calligraphy version of Gothicized italic.
A medieval inspired illumination with calligraphic render of poem

The Temple
Enter the temple beautiful! The house not made with hands!
Rain-washed and green, wind-swept and clean,
Beneath the blue it stands,
And no cathedral anywhere
Seems so holy or so fair.

It has no heavy gabled roof, no door with lock and key,
No window-bars shut out the stars,
The aisles are wide and free -
Here through the night each altar-light
Is but a moon-beam, silver-white.

And all the golden gloom of it holdeth no haunting fear,
For it is blessed, and giveth rest
To those who enter here -

Virna Sheard
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Ruth tait @truthyart.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
And illuminated calligraphy piece showing text by Jack Layton. The text reads: my friends, Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair.  So let us be loving, hopeful, and optimistic.  And will change the world.
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Ruth tait @truthyart.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A seasonal celebration card with calligraphy and illustration, using the words from jingle bells song
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Ruth tait @truthyart.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Illumination of text from Rebecca Solnit with Grotesques of Trump and Musk.
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Ruth tait @truthyart.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Nothing is more unworthy of a civilized nation than to be ruled, unresistingly, by an irresponsible gang of bosses given to sinister instincts.
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Ruth tait @truthyart.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Conservation artists
EXPOSITION
Artistes pour la nature
DEC 2-29

A display of artwork inspired by the Dumoine River and surrounding wilderness
Une présentation des œuvres d'art inspirées par la rivière Dumoine et la nature environnante
→-CPAWS
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY
OTTAWA VALLEY CHAPTER
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
(CPAWS) is Canada's pre-eminent, national community-based voice for public wilderness protection.
CPAWS-Ottawa Valley Chapter holds an annual retreat for artists to be inspired by nature and to support its conservation efforts.
A percentage of sales to benefit CPAWS
Ottawa Valley projects
To purchase please contact:
ov-outreach@cpaws.org
Ó SNAP
SOCIÉTÉ POUR LA NATURE ET LES PARCS DU CANADA
SECTION VALLEE DE L'OUTAOUAIS
La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada
(SNAP) est le principal porte-parole national com-munautaire, en matière de protection de la nature.
Le chapitre de la vallée de l'Outaouais de la SNAP regroupe des artistes lors d'une retraite annuelle pour capturer la beauté de la région et appuyer sa conservation.
Un pourcentage de la vente contribuera aux projets de la SNAP-VO
Pour acheter, veuillez écrire à :
ov-outreach@cpaws.org
www.cpaws-ov-vo.org
Chez Lucien
OTTAWA, ONTARIO - EST. 2004
137 Murray Street, Ottawa
613-241-3533
11:00 AM -2:00 AM
Thank you Chez Lucien for your support • Merci à Chez Lucien pour leur appui
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