Artist’s Statement

Ruth is a writer, psychotherapist and independent movement practitioner and facilitator, based in the UK. She was formerly a geologist.

In her established movement-based psychotherapeutic practice, which is located on a semi-forested hillside in rural Derbyshire, she explores how humans heal or ‘rewild’ in relationship with wounded and restoring landscapes.

Ruth’s work travels a path between quiet, contemplative practice and joyful creative expression of the human animal within an interconnected more-than-human world. It centres place-based, embodied listening and writing practices paired with creative movement and reflective self-enquiry to deepen our interspecies relationality beyond the species divide, initiating new conversations and communion between our porous animal-mineral bodies.  

Her published writing currently explores ways we can connect with the abiotic foundations of the earth in order to live better in a time of multiple crises (Weathering, 2024; Grounded, 2021), and new movement explorations extend this written work into real-world rocky terrains in a practice she calls geosomatics, which has its roots and influence in ecosomatics, sited authentic movement and contact improvision.

She is interested primarily with how deep listening and bodily interactions with the rest of nature (rocks, animals, plants, trees, water etc.) can support empathic and compassionate connection, mutual recovery, and reorient us towards a more engaged and entangled relationship with the living planet in service to meaningful restoration and deeper guardianship.