I started drawing and painting at a very young age. After graduating from college with a BA in Fine Art, I continued my art studies in NYC at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Art. I’ve taken plein air workshops in France, Cape Cod, Massachussets and Laguna Beach, California. I spent many years as a courtroom artist covering famous trials for major television networks. Even during my years of being a courtroom artist I was always working with speed to try to capture a moment in time. Today I continue with this challenge outdoors. Light is fleeting, nature is ever changing and weather can be unforgiving. Working outdoors in NYC presents a unique set of challenges for a plein air painter. There are always people around- both interesting and interested. It’s important to remain focused. This vibrant city provides a never ending supply of exciting subject matter to paint.

From the day she was able to grasp a pencil, Dona has had a love for art. After graduating from California State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Art, Gelsinger’s first major commission was to paint the Stations of the Cross for St. Denis Church in Diamond Bar, Calif. This project, the creation of 14 near life-size paintings, consumed her artistic energies for nearly two years and won her widespread acclaim.
Early in the 1990s, Dona worked with Thomas Kinkade publisher, Lightpost Publishing to expose her artwork to the retail community. As demand for Dona’s artwork began to grow our family decided it was time to form our own business and pour all of our efforts into promoting the Dona Gelsinger brand. In 1994, Brian and Dona founded Little Angel Publishing and began offering Dona’s artwork on limited edition prints.

Just twelve years he exhibited two of his works in the annual Bourbon Show, where in 1833 he won the silver medal for the painting class II Square Vicar, then bought by Queen Isabella of Bourbon, then two years later he won the medal The silver class.
It soon became famous in the Neapolitan art, thanks to the favor of powerful families of the time, as Goerace Meuricoffre and, in addition to his ties of friendship with the Earl of Montesantangelo.

David Moore, Australia’s most renowned and widely travelled photo journalist, died aged 75 on 23 January 2003, two days before the opening of his retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia. His extraordinary and meticulously catalogued archive covers both his homeland and the many countries and subjects he has visited over a sixty year career.

If you know anything of my work you have some idea of the thread of optimism that runs through it. For 30 years I have been surprising and delighting my public, both within the museum walls and without.

Maryanne Jacobsen Fine Art

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Maryanne Jacobsen is a colorist and contemporary impressionist. She began painting in 2006 after an early retirement from a performing arts career allowed her the opportunity to indulge in a childhood dream to become a visual artist. With color the motivating factor in her desire to paint, she picked up a palette knife and the magic of creation began. The love affair is still in high gear eight years later, and Maryanne feels truly blessed to have found one more passion in a life that has been filled with artistic accomplishments.

While I rely on reality as my inspiration, I’m never a tight realist in my work.  Rather, I like to play with color and texture so that you know the painting surface has been touched and worked on.”

Whittredge’s paintings are now in the collections of numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Valeri Larko is best know for her densely painted landscapes of the urban fringe, all of which she paints on location. She is attracted to the decaying and abandoned structures that populated the outskirts of America’s urban centers and the stories these places can tell.