John Merlino

PAINTING

John has been involved with the arts ever since he could pick up a pencil and draw.  While still very young he was able to commute to Buffalo, NY from his home in Eden to attend weekly classes studying under Anthony Sisti and attending classes at the famous, Albright Knox.  He graduated from Eden Senior High School and went onto Daemen College in Amherst, NY where he studied Art History with an emphasis on the human figure drawing and painting.

John's focus is always on artistic achievement especially in relationship to natural beauty and landscape.  There is a constant building up or weaving of texture and color that gives way to his heightened realism. He is constantly searching for diverse subject matter in relationship to both spiritual and organic form, rendering these onto a two dimensional surface, a never ending series of projects.