Fran’s paintings have won numerous awards in national as well as regional shows and are represented in corporate and private collections in the U.S. and abroad. Her style is a painterly realism; her strokes are confident yet spontaneous; her colors are clean and fresh. “Painting is the way I communicate and express how I feel about the subject matter. I want the viewer to not only see what I am seeing, but also how I am seeing it, to share my emotional response about the subject.” says Fran.