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. Honors Degree in Fine Art / Painting. During the course of her studies Ruth came into contact with many established English working artists who lectured at Brighton. Her taste in art is diverse, ranging from the very painterly masters of color, line and light such as Chaim Soutine, Honore' Daumier, Goya, Rembrandt and Van Gogh to contemporary painters Howard Hodgkin, Frank Auerbach, Richard Diebenkorn and Georg 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.