About the Artist

Howard Marchese is primarily a figurative, landscape, and still life painter.  His love of art began at an early age.  At nights,  while still in his teens, working for the Department of Public Safety in Texas,  he would draw detailed pencil drawings of models  out of magazines,  and give / and /or sell them to friends.   His formal training began at the Mission Renaissance Art Academy in Hollywood, California, in his early 20s, under the tutelage of portrait artist Larry Gluck, founder of the Mission Renaissance schools.   There,  he learned basic drawing , anatomy , and painting.  He later, after having a busy career in real estate, started taking art classes on evenings and weekends.   He enrolled in Associates in Art academy.  It was taught by industry professionals who were animators, illustrators, and fashion designers.  Most were artists with deep roots in the Hollywood film industry.  He continued to paint and draw for years rubbing elbows and learning from Hollywood  movie industry artists along with fine artists.

Among his  many instructors were Steve Huston, Karl Gnass, and Bill Perkins.  Many were graduates of  the famous Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.   These were modern masters, whose teaching and professional knowledge of drawing, painting, and design shaped his basic foundational  skills as an artist.   He continues improving his painting skills doing workshops with notable artists such as Dan Gerhartz, Rose Frantz, Ruth Fitton, and Olga Krimnon to name a few. 

His work has earned multiple awards including Best of Show awards,  and has been exhibited in galleries in  California and Oklahoma, including a long-standing presence at the Esther Wells Collection in Laguna Beach. He also owned and operated a gallery in Marina del Rey for some years.

Howard now lives and paints in Edmond, Oklahoma, where he was raised and has family. What drives him to the canvas each day is the same thing it has always been . It  his desire to create something beautiful and interesting to share with others, and just maybe,  bring them to a happier, higher,  emotional state of well being, which he feels is the main purpose of art.