About

Fran Geiger recalls clearly the day she “discovered” art. Hitchhiking through Europe while in her mid-twenties, she wandered into a Paris art museum (now part of Musee D’Orsay). There, she saw the Impressionists for the first time. “The work simply blew me away,” she says. From that moment, she was determined that one day she would paint.

She returned to her native Canada, married and raised a family. When her children were teen-agers, she took the first step in her resolve to become an artist and enrolled in college as an art major.  The family moved to Atlanta where she continued her art education.

Her first love was photography, and she explored the medium’s wide possibilities in her darkroom, printing on a variety of traditional and non-traditional surfaces. Her experimentation and love of abstract imagery, inspired by nature and the human figure, led her to painting and creating collages, often using her photographs as a starting point. Currently, she is working in encaustic, an ancient process using hot wax and pigment. Fran’s work is abstract, textural and colorful.

She works from her studio in Atlanta, and her paintings hang in private collections in the United States and Canada.