Fran Wood's art
Fran Wood is a realistic impressionist whose artistic interests lie in figurative and landscape painting.



Working in both oil and watercolor, she has won national and regional awards for her plein-air oil landscapes and for her watercolors of people in everyday settings. While Fran's subjects are diverse, her watercolors and oils share the common theme of dramatic light.

Fran's landscapes are executed on site - primarily in northern New Jersey, where she lives, and on Martha's Vineyard, where she frequently vacations. She also has painted on location elsewhere in the United States and in Europe. Most of her figurative painting is done in her home studio in Mendham, New Jersey. Fran's work has been represented in a number of juried shows in the past decade, among them Gallery 84 (New York City); the Ashwell Gallery (Beverly, Mass); and the American Artists Professional League (at the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan). She received the 1999 Watercolor Magic magazine award for her watercolor "Appreciating Sargent," which was part of the National Watercolor

Association's year-long traveling exhibition in 2000. In August, 2003, one of her landscape paintings was awarded first prize in oils at the All-Island Art Show on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. A member of the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan and a signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society, Fran's work is frequently exhibited in one-woman shows - most recently in November 2004 at The Peck School in Morristown, N.J.

A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Fran also has studied art at the Centro d'Arte Verrocchio in Casole d'Elsa, Italy, and at the Scottsdale Artists' School in Phoenix, Arizona. She received her plein-air training from Lee Hughes, a highly respected New Jersey impressionist landscape artist, and has studied plein-air landscape painting with renowned British watercolorist John Yardley.