Born 1970, Glasgow.

Stuart graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1992, having studied Fine Art Drawing and Painting.  He has been a professional artist since 1993.
His paintings are representational, with figures set in richly textured, colourful ambiguous landscapes. "I like to think that the viewer does not need to know where the figures are nor what they ard doing, to relate to the personal moments that I seek to capture in my work". Stuart Buchanan, 2006.
He is now also painting landscapes and seascapes of the surrounding areas around his home  in Aberdeenshire.

In 1991 he won the Patrick Allan Fraser Scholarship, and in 1998 was the Artist in Residence at Hospitalfield House, Arbroath.
More recently he was  awarded the office of Artist in Residence of the Aberdeen City Council. Hence he has now left his native Glasgow and is living in a fishing village on Scotland's east coast
His work has been included in many shows both north and south of the border, as well as in exhibitions in T'blisi and New York.

Residencies and Scholarships include:
1991 Hospitalfield House, Patrick Allan Fraser Summer Scholarship
1998 Artist in Residence, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath
2004 Artist in Residence, Watch House Cottage, Catterline, Nr. Stonehaven
2006 Artist in Residence of the Aberdeen City Council