Ruth Franklin was born in Kent, England in 1964 and raised on the country's east coast in Suffolk. In 1983 she was accepted into Brighton Art School where she obtained a BA Honours degree in Fine Art/Painting.

Her taste in art is diverse, ranging from the very painterly masters of colour, line, and light such as Chaim Soutine, Goya, Rembrandt and Van Gogh to contemporary painters Howard Hodgkin, Frank Auerbach, Richard Diebenkorn and George Baselitz.

Having traveled throughout Europe, including time spent in Barcelona and Amsterdam, Ruth relocated to Atlanta, Georgia in 1994 where she currently lives and works.

Ruth Franklin's pastel paintings are in many important private and corporate collections. She has one woman shows at Gallery 71 in New York, features in Architectural Digest, Metropolitan Home, House & Garden Elle Decor, and she was a major ad campaign for Larson-Juhl, the largest frame manufacturer and a long time patron of Franklin's work.

Whether depicting cozy interiors with a warm domestic glow, darkly mysterious suburban streets where identical A-frame houses and lollilop trees hint an ironic social subtext, or the subtle shadow play on the porch of a humble seaside bungalow, Ruth Franklin invests each subject she paints with a visual poetry that implies true mastery.