Mark Daniells is an artist living on the island of Kauai.

He was born in California and at the age of five moved to Micronesia where his parents took jobs with the Trust Territory of the Pacific. For the next ten years he lived amidst the lush and colorful South Pacific landscape and lifestyle. Spending these years absorbing the images of lush tropical plant life and frequentlydiving in the lagoons with multi-hued fish have contributed to his sensitivity and passion for painting.

Returning to Santa Cruz, California as a teenager he continued his education and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree. Later the same year he traveled to Europe, visited the museums and studied art in Copenhagen where he had his first showing. Since that time he studied at the Institute for Experimental Printmaking now centered in San Fransisco.

After moving to Hawaii in 1981, his work has been exhibited in numerous fine galleries and many private and corporate collections, the most notable being the Princeville Sheraton's origional hotel, the Sheraton Poipu Hotel and the former Westin Kauai Lagoons.

He was named Emerging Artist of the Year by the Jean Charlot Foundation at a show at the Ramsay Art Gallery on Oahu in 1988. Ron Ronck , a noted author, featured him on the " Arts Page" inthe Honolulu Advertiser for this event.

Currently Mark works out of his Studio / Gallery in Hanalei and has included etched glass, and wood carving to his fields of workin addition to watercolors and oil. The business end of art occupies the other time in his work schedule and has focusedmore recently on making reproductions of the many pieces that have been commissioned. He now has fifteen prints in production.
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