BORDER BOOK FESTIVAL
FEATURED WRITER AND ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

JEAN BUCHANAN

Jean A. Buchanan was born in Pasadena, Texas and currently resides in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She was born to paint and make sculptures. She is an award-winning artist who has painted landscapes, portraits and southwestern themes for many years. She enjoys the unexpected in watercolors as well as the transparency and liquidity of the medium,

Jean A. Buchanan has lived, studied, created and taught painting for most of her
Life. A multimedia artist, her works appear in collections throughout the United States and in Europe.

Buchanan has taught art at San Jacinto College, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston as well as Rice University. She has taught classes in design, drawing and painting at El Paso Community College and The El Paso Museum of Fine Arts School.

Awards include the Purchase Award of the Texas Watercolor Society for her watercolor, “Canyon Moon.”

“I have painted, made jewelry, sculpture, ceramics and taught art for most of my life. Now I paint with watercolors and water-soluble oils and work with clay and old rusty metals (found objects) for sculpture and collage.

Over the last twenty-five years I have painted the Southwestern landscape, Native people, animals, also buffalo are a reoccurring themes in my art.

Of Buchanan’s artwork it has been said “she reflects the spiritual undertones and mystical experience of the Native Americans of the Southwest.”

Buchanan states, “I deeply respect the Old Ones for their harmony with Mother Earth, especially the teaching of White Buffalo Woman in which she urges us to respect ALL LIFE and to take care of OUR MOTHER, the Earth.”

Jean enjoys working in southern New Mexico. “People here are very friendly and subject matter for painting abounds.”

Buchanan’s paintings and limited edition prints may be viewed online at: www.ostyn-newman.com