Frances is a partner at Necessary Arts Company, an open studio for creatives in downtown Guelph, where she paints. Her visual work describes an intricate game of hide and seek, involving pebbles, sweets, jewels and inner secrets through oil, watercolour and acrylic. Sometimes described as "dream-like," Frances's pieces depict the unsteady balance of that child's play and the real world of work - often represented by numbers, symbols, buildings or words. She happily paints on commission.