Gayane Minasyan is a painter and collage artist whose prolific work focuses on showing the beauty of women and portraiture. She first turned to art to help relieve the stress and loneliness of disconnecting from social life, losing a dear friend and watching her native country of Armenia enter into a war, all during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and has quickly turned her work into a statement about the power of art to share messages of hope, faith and beauty.
Denise was born in Washington, DC and raised in Prince George's County Maryland. A Bachelor of Science in Fashion Merchandising and Management graduate from Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) with 20 years’ experience in the field of Early Childhood Education. During the latter portion of Denise's high school career, she awakened her interior and fashion design skills and later served as Assistant to her crafts teacher in 12th grade after enjoying the course the prior year.