​     "As  a child, I would add paper mache to the flowers in my paint-by-number kits to make the florals 'come alive.' This desire to enliven my paintings stayed with me during my schooling where my medium of choice was spackling wall paste. Today in my practice, I count on various heavy pastes, sands, paper towels, acrylic skins and other texturizing mediums and applications  to furnish the breath.  With an homage to color, I seek a cinematic experience for each of my paintings. There is no unity to my style and I encourage the viewer to wander inside and relate on their own viseral level." 

 

     Fran Mann Goodman started her formal education with a fashion design and illustration major at Chouinard Art Institute only to be told by her professor Robert Chuey upon taking a painting class as an elective, that she was born to paint. She switched her major to fine arts and painted in representational style. As a student of Chouinard, she was invited to exhibit her works in galleries and furniture showrooms in Los Angeles. After college, due to a childhood trauma with her face, Goodman shifted her interest from painting canvases to women’s faces. 

     At twenty-one Goodman was the lead makeup artist at Betty Milne Modeling Agency in Toronto, a subsidiary of Wilhelmina Models. Her job was to prepare top models for photo shoots in international magazines and on billboards. Working in the industry, she learned that even aesthetically beautiful women harbored facial inferiority complexes. This led to a 30-year career to inspire all women to appreciate their given beauty. Goodman devised workshops and support groups in the United States and Canada and was featured on national talk shows, radio, in women’s magazines and The New York Times. ​During those years, she did not paint. Instead, she wrote a memoir and two screenplays centered around her personal story and mission to empower women to value their faces and themselves. 

     In 2012, in the middle of inciting a Hollywood agent's interest in her second screenplay, Goodman contracted Lyme disease which weakened her hands and affected her ability to write. Fighting a severe depression, she discovered she could hold a palette knife and paint in the style of abstract expressionism. This led to a series of master classes at the Art Students League with renowned abstract artist Larry Poons. Her works were shown in galleries in New York City. Goodman also taught classes in abstract expressionism at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey.

       

     A resident of southern Florida since 2015, Goodman is the former educational fund chair for the Delray Art League and Signature member of the Boca Art. Guild. Additionally, she is former co chair of the art program for the Boca Raton branch of the National League of American Pen Women, and is now the .  scholarship coordinator of the National Association of Women Artists, Florida chapter. An award-winning artist, her paintings richly layered and textured have appeared in over fifty exhibitions in the United States and Canada and are in private collection internationally.  A sought-after speaker and workshop leader, Goodman has taught both online and in-person classes in various locations in Palm Beach County including at Old School Squares’ Creative Art School in Delray Beach. She has written numerous essays about the techniques of her craft that attracted the local media and has been featured in several publications, including Delray Magazine and Boca Magazine. 

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