Twice -voted 'Best Established Visual Artist' by the readers of Creative Loafing, Atlanta's arts and culture newspaper.
Ruth Franklin is an English artist who grew up in East Anglia and studied at Brighton Art School in the eighties. She paints seven days a week at her Decatur, Georgia studio, where she's worked for the past fifteen years. Ruth was nominated for a USA Artists Fellowship in 2016, and she has twice been voted 'Best Established Visual Artist' by the readers of Creative Loafing, Atlanta's arts and culture newspaper.
Ruth has always maintained her identity as a painter and has stuck to her own ideas about what makes a good painting. She has continued over the past thirty+ years to push around paint in her own way, reveling in the process to create evocative and compelling pictures.
She emigrated to America in 1994 and has exhibited in the US, Europe and Asia, with solo shows in Atlanta and New York. Her work has featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Searching for Home at The Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College and Secret 7" at Now Gallery on Greenwich Peninsula in London. Additional shows include Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia; Harlem Fine Arts Show, New York; Raw Art Fair, Rotterdam; AAF Contemporary Art Fair, NYC; Under Different Circumstances, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; and Art, Arte, Kunst, a pop-up show on Luckie Street during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Ruth has donated her work to benefit Help Refugees, Amnesty International UK, MIND: the mental health charity, the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, Waterkeeper Alliance, Georgia Lawyers for the Arts, Art Papers and The Hambidge Center.
Her art is in countless collections, including the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Deloitte & Touche, Four Seasons Hotels, King & Spalding, Larson-Juhl, Lightroom Studio, Price Waterhouse, Victoria Sanders & Associates, Stockwell Films and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Ruth has been commissioned by Agnes Scott College, the City of Decatur, Universal Studios Florida, and musician/composer Trevor Watts. Her art has been licensed to appear in many films and television shows produced by Netflix, Paramount Famous Productions, TriStar Pictures, Tyler Perry Studios and Walt Disney Pictures.