Even after his untimely death in 1997, Richard Franklin remains one of the world's foremost neo classical artists. His treatment of the human figure is linked to the religious, mythological and secular visions of the Classical style that he found so inspirational. Working during an era focused on modernism and abstraction, Franklin was drawn to Classicism early in his artistic career and joined a genre of contemporary artists whose creative quest was to apply the techniques of the masters to modern artistic expression. Franklin's neo-Classical approach to composition and his quest to reclaim the imagery of the "ideal" human figure and it's relationship to the Classical foundations of Antiquity are the basis for his final body of work. The result is a unique aesthetic born in the ideal beauty sought by the Old Masters and channeled through Richard Franklin's brush.