Faux Visage
The Artist

   At age 5, Marion Digney Peer began designing dresses for her dolls and pets.  At 21 after graduating top of her class at Parsons School of Design, she opened her own couture house on 7^th Avenue.  Her elegant high-fashion line was sold in every major store and specialty shop in the country-from Bergdorf Goodman in New York to Neiman Marcus in Texas.
   Years later Marion is still designing-but now she puts beautiful silks and satins on canvas! The inspiration for this new business, Faux Visage, is a dynamic love story-her own.  Marion’s new husband, a quadriplegic from a skiing accident 20 years earlier, is a challenge when it comes to gift-giving time.  While racking her brain to create a unique and meaningful anniversary gift to tickle her husband’s terrific sense of humor, Marion created her first Faux Visage masterpiece.  She blended the faces of their treasured family pets into the Grand Master painting Don Manuel Osorio by Francisco Goya.  The great laugh it elicited from Les really hooked her!  With the encouragement of family and friends, her vision (and then the name) for Faux Visage was born: to add a little joy, love and laughter to the world by creating whimsical and elegant one-of-a-kind period portraits of people and/or their pets.
   Soon Marion was creating paintings for customers the world over, including a special tribute to her husband, displaying him standing tall as a horseman in the painting Lieutenant Charles Legrand by Anoine-Jean Gros.
   In addition to running Faux Visage, Marion serves as editor for an international art guild.