Mernie Buchanan Studio

At age 6 in the 60’s I took my first adult painting class, earned a BA in Art at UNLV in the 70’s and owned a full-time art & design biz in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1982-2017. My studio/gallery was part of downtown Benicia for thirty years.
 
Since the 80s I’ve designed and created wall art, elaborate murals, illustrations, portraits and signage. I painted fifty stage sets in California theaters and won many awards.

As a six-year rep for Grumbacher, I taught adult painting classes at Michaels in Pleasant Hill CA, workshops at Arts Benicia and the week-long Feather River Art Camp retreat in the Sierras, then continued to teach beginning acrylic classes during my seven years in Woodstock, New York.

Exhibits include 150+ art festivals and galleries in California, Nevada, New York, Hawaii and now Arizona. My colorful, narrative paintings live in collections from Osaka to Oxford and across the US. The Faux Louvre series—fanciful museum masterpiece studies in watercolor and upcycled, hand painted frames—sold over 3,000 originals & prints.

After another big move, MernieStudio is up and running in sunny Tucson. All new landscapes! My ongoing gallery is open 24/7 at  Etsy—ArtByMernie.