Fish & coral plant life come alive here in high relief sculptural form. One of the unique features of Ruth Collis' thick paintings is the transition from "Flat" to "Height," showing the brushstrokes between the flat canvas to the thickly painted parts that seem so unreal. Those transitionary strokes make the painting look like it truly is a painting, when hard to believe some of these cool thick forms truly are acrylic paint.

Go underwater in this unique thick acrylics painting where shapes take on a sculptural form. Reeds have a transparent quality, fish spout extravagant tails, sea coral & sponges take on a presence that stand off the canvas surface, and where colorful translucent jellyfish give a light, happy feel to this painting.

Textured comby reeds have an impressionistic feel from being painted on canvas at the right, to literal 3D & transparent form coming off the surface to the left, being true to life & seaweed like.