Golden Isle Painting

Ruth Franklin is an English artist who lives and works in the American Deep South. She grew up in East Anglia and studied at Brighton Art School in the eighties. 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. Since emigrating to America and settling in Atlanta, Georgia, she's twice been voted 'Best Visual Artist' (2019 & 2014) by the readers of Creative Loafing, Atlanta's alternative news and entertainment publication. In 2016, she was nominated for the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship. ​Ruth's expressive paintings and drawings have been exhibited internationally, from Nashville to the Netherlands, including numerous one-woman shows in Atlanta and New York. She's a true 'painter's painter', in her studio before dawn seven days a week and always driven to make a good painting.