BIOGRAPHY

Fran Skiles has been a full time studio artist for the past twenty years, residing in South Florida and recently the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. She maintains a studio in each location. In addition to studio, work, Fran has been conducting workshops in paper and fabric collage
construction throughout the country for the past eight years.

In the 1990's, before she began producing collage paintings, Fran made art quilts and exhibited them Nationally and Internationally. The venues included Quilt National, best of show 97, Visions Quilt San Diego, British Crafts Council’s, American Art Quilt exhibition, Fiber Arts International and Art Quilts: America of the Millennium in Strasburg, France.