Ruth Tait (a.k.a. Rutz)
Ruth Tait was born into a diplomatic family and spent her early life on the move. She believes that this circumstance encouraged the development of the observer’s eye early on. The structure of her adult life shifted into something less peripatetic when she moved to Toronto and settled down to raise a family and complete art school. She graduated with a diploma from OCA(D) and then studied animation at Sheridan. Her training in these disciplines provided the necessary tools with which to work as a storyboard artist for the film industry, a web and graphic designer and, over the 20 years she has been working as a freelance artist, turn her hand to various other miscellaneous projects she has been asked to tackle. In her spare (!) time, she also creates comic books exploring themes outside the normal vein of the mainstream comics industry. She self-publishes her own books and has also had stories appear in many anthologies. Recently, she moved to a live/work studio at the new Artscape Wychwood Barns complex.

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