Ruth Doggett studied at the Westminster School of Art, where she was taught by Camden Town Group painters Walter Sickert and Harold Gilman, who painted her around 1915.
She became a member of the newly formed London Group in 1913, and was one of a group of contemporary women painters that reflected the work of Gilman in use of colour and craftsmanship.
She held a solo exhibition at the Fine Art Society in 1934, titled August in England, with positive reviews. The Times review noted how she,
‘achieved an admirable and intelligent balance between pure impressionism…and a method of sound, at times systematic, construction… [and] for the most part she is remarkably successful’. (The Times, 1 March 1934).