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Merryl Jaye is a celebrated painter who was raised in California. She began painting at age twelve. Her style is not only unmistakably recognizable, it’s visionary and irrevocably her own. Merryl is fascinated by performing arts, she also sang and studied light opera, and won many scholarships. Her background in music has merged her popular masterpieces with her extremely lyrical sense of lighting and color that many of her fans find truly captivating. In her late teens, the artist used to entertain the troops in Vietnam with the USO. This made her feel that she was serving her country in a special way. After a successful career as a recording artist, songwriter, and having appeared on television and stage, she left the music industry and decided to follow painting which was her true passion. Her deep background in music is one of the major influencers of her painting process. This allows her the understanding and sensitivity to capture on canvas the spontaneity and emotion of jazz in live performance. Her reproductions and original paintings are sought after and owned by an ever widening list of prestigious collectors, including many greats in the fields of entertainment, business and politics. This explains why framed Merryl Jaye art can be found in almost all corners of the world. She began painting the jazz greats portraits in 2005. She captures their true essence of her subjects, and even more importantly recreates their uncanny likenesses. Merryl’s subjects have been rendered vividly, using an expressionistic, contemporary style.
