Ruth’s Porch Art Is An Alabama Maker Of Colorful Creations

By Michael Tomberlin

Ruth Robinson never knows ahead of time what her folk art paintings will be about.

Well, that’s not exactly true. She’s pretty sure it’s going to be about family.

“When I paint fish, it’s about Uncle Bud. When I paint cotton, it’s about my Papa, who was a sharecropper in Wilmer. When I paint about the school bus, that’s my Mom,” she said. “I paint about family and I have a lot of stories to tell about my family.”

The artist and owner of Ruth’s Porch Art never knows which family story is going to come out.

“I don’t know what I’m going to paint,” she said. “When an idea comes to me, I can’t rest until I get it down and then it might take three or four days for me to say it’s perfect. I set it before me for two or three days and when I’m at ease and when I’ve had it long enough, I can get rid of it.”

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