Ruby Huston lives and works in Auckland and has been working as an artist since 1975. Huston is largely self-taught. Huston has exhibited extensively and her work is included in both public and private collections in New Zealand as well as abroad.

Huston shows meticulous attention to detail and craftsmanship in her work, employing a palette of rich hues in a dense tonal structure.

Her painterly ability, combined with an air of the disjointed, a penchant for scenes of frozen movement and her choice of exotic subject matter - ranging from lithe plant forms, flowers and fruits to strange figures, nudes and castles in desolate landscapes - lend Huston's work a sense of the disembodiment and mystery evocative of dream sequences.