Latin Contemporary Art of Ruth Gonzales contains an atmospheric field of light and emptiness, which creates an ethereal, Zen like quality to her abstract paintings.  Ruth Gonzales is predominant among Contemporary Abstract Mexican Artists. Her oil paintings reflect imaginary steeped in metaphorical allusion and spiritual density.  Gonzales describes her oil paintings as "Emphasizing the cosmic streams of nature, tumultious, subtle or sublime, with figuration unbounded by the limitations of surface form".

Gonzales' abstract oil paintings are said to have "Rufino Tamayo"s intensity of color" with "William Turner's broad manifestation of light and space".  Using a complex application of color, often executed in numerous translucent layers, she creates a scrambles, pentimento surface.  Her abstract oil paintings create a subtle allusion to landscapes or cosmic space throught the delicate suggestions of a horizon.

In discussions of her style of painting, Gonzales has said "Abstract painting renders me with the possibility to create and to respond towards the field of light, of a color space, to a subtle figuration of a cosmic form, to be healed and to be transformed."

 She often quotes and ancient Chinese Zen Blessing - "The greater reaches of space do not leave its confines, and the smallest down of a bird in autumn awaits its power to assume form."  Her artwork is deeply influenced by music as well.  Her brush strokes and colors are often the response to the emotional effect of her love of music.  

 " The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."
So that he can test colors from themselves and not only by external impressions. Nowdays we are still bound to external nature and must find our means of expression in her. But how are we to do it? In other words how far may we go in altering the forms and colours of this nature? We may go as far as the artist is able to carry his emotion, and once more we see how immense is the need for true emotion". 

Vassily Kandisky on the Theory of the Spiritual in Art.