"Bringing the Museum to You"

By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature a ten-piece Exhibition by Florida Impressionist landscape painter Maryanne Jacobsen, our first contemporary artist on the new website!

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, Maryanne began painting. Ms. Jacobsen is the former regional director of The Rock School West, an official school of The Pennsylvania Ballet, as well as the founding director of West Chester Dance Theatre. 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 seven years later, and Maryanne feels truly blessed to have found one more passion in a life that has been filled with artistic accomplishments.

Although Maryanne Jacobsen has described her work as “a gallery of forgotten dreams”, her body of original paintings is hardly forgettable. Indeed, her vibrantly-colored oils have been described by collectors and fellow artists as lyrical, inspired and passionate, since feeling is the motivating theme behind each piece of art she creates.

Over the past few years Maryanne has been juried into many local and national shows including the American Impressionist Society, American Women Artists, Women Painters of the Southeast and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society. She has won many awards, including First Place and Best of Show and paints en plein air.

Maryanne is represented by galleries throughout the United States including Galerie du Soleil in Naples, Fl., Gallery 444 in Union Square, San Francisco, Lorica Artworks in Andover, Massachusetts, and Collector’s Gallery in Venice Fl.

Here is her official website:

www.maryannejacobsen.com