Ruth Franklin

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.

Brighton Art School, England - BA, Fine Art/Painting, 1986

Vinson Gallery 25 Year Anniversary Show, Different Trains Gallery, Atlanta, May, 2023

6XTOne, a city-wide exhibit of Atlanta-based artists, January 1-5, 2022

Here and Now, group show of seven immigrant artists in collaboration with Welcoming America, The WADDI art gallery, Atlanta GA, Sep 11 - Oct 15, 2021

Secret 7", in aid of Help Refugees at NOW Gallery, London, September 4-13, 2020

Searching for Home, group exhibition, The Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College, Decatur GA Sep 3 - Dec 12, 2020

ONLY WHEN I LAUGH, one-woman show, Different Trains Gallery, Decatur GA, 12 April - 22 June, 2019

Secret 7", in aid of Mind, the mental health charity, at The Jetty, London, 2018

Secret 7", group show & sale to benefit Amnesty International UK, Sonos Studio, London, 8 Apr - 2 May, 2016

Painting Out Loud, one-woman-show, Steve Mckenzie’s, Atlanta GA, 2015

The Big Pop Up, group show w/ Kosmo Vinyl & Wreckless Eric, East Decatur Station, Decatur, GA, Jun 12, 2015

Group exhibition of women artists, Bennett Gallery, Nashville TN, 2014

Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Jun 22 - Aug 24, 2013

Harlem Fine Arts Show, Historic Riverside Church, New York NY, - Feb 7-10, 2013

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