Creating Chocolate Masterpieces By Jean L. Zaun

Using white, dark and milk chocolate, food coloring, sugars and confectionery glaze, artist Jean Zaun is able to reproduce famous paintings. Jean L. Zaun was born and raised in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. She received an A.A. degree in Liberal Arts from Wesley College (1973) and a B.S. degree in Art Education from Kutztown University (1979).
Jean has been painting seriously for the last twenty years, having solo exhibitions regionally and nationally approximately every two years. After laboring as a candy coater in the family chocolate business for 22 years (her day job), Jean has moved on to now paint and sculpt full time in oils, pastels, and yes chocolate. Jean's first love, however, is painting with oil on panel or canvas. Her subject matter embraces the entire genre with the common thread being her passion for color while stimulating the affect on the emotions. Her paintings, while realistic, are not only visual diaries of the subject matter which is the initial concept, but are really about the more universal moods and emotions that we all share. Jean has received first place and best of show awards in regional and national juried shows for her oil painting and pastels. Most recently she received national recognition for her more unconventional creative pieces: chocolate paintings and sculptures.