Franklin Williams (b. 1940, Ogden, UT, lives and works in Petaluma, CA) emerged as a young Bay Area artist in the early 1960s. His deeply personal work imagines a world of fantastical landscape, biomorphic form and historic styles of ornament, and is deeply influenced by handicraft and labors of love. Williams taught for over fifty years, holding long-term positions at both the San Francisco Art Institute and California College of Arts. He was included in the legendary Funk exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum in 1967 and his work is held in many permanent collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Oakland Art Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the UC Berkeley Art Museum.