Mark Merrill

Biography

Mark Merrill is an artist-missionary with the Christian Cultural Development Foundation, working among artists, street children, and prostitutes in the Philippines since 1991. Merrill donates his paintings entirely to the Christian Cultural Development Foundation.

He has been a professional artist since the day following his High School graduation in 1976 when he started apprenticing under John Q. Archer, designing and fabricating large paintings and specialty projects.

His formal education began with Marketing/Advertising at Miami University of Ohio, and he later received a BFA with honors in painting and holography from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Applying his degree to a career, he has been Director and Curator for an international Fine Art Holographic Museum and Gallery in the business district of Los Angeles, California. Since working for God full-time, he has been painting a variety of images over the past ten years. His work is collected and displayed throughout the world.