Diane Franklin is an artist, teacher and writer living and working in Jamaica Plain. She makes large wall pieces from fabric and/or paper, using a variety of surface design techniques. Starting with white fabric or paper, she uses shibori dyeing, screen printing, painting,rusting, gelli printing , etc. to transform the surface of her materials. She then combines these materials into abstract compositions. Diane has exhibited her work in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States and has won awards for several of her pieces. For the past few years, Diane has also made a number of artist books and collages, using her own photographs or printed papers. Diane has also written articles about fiber related topics for Fiber Art Now and Fibre Arts Take Two. She is also the author of Dyeing Alchemy, a primer and workbook about Procion dyeing.

Her fiber pieces can be seen on her website, www.dianefranklinart.com, and many of her books and collages can be viewed on her Instagram account:  https://www.instagram.com/diane.franklin/