Bill Buchman, an internationally represented American artist lived and worked as an artist for twenty years in Europe, primarily in Copenhagen and Paris. Now Bill lives in Sarasota, Florida where he is on the faculty of the Ringling College - Longboat Key Center for the Arts and has his studio. An accomplished artist, art educator, and lecturer, Bill gives workshops and lectures on both the creative process and on figure drawing around the US and has made popular educational DVD’s on both of these subjects. He is represented by Gallerihuset of Copenhagen and his new book “Expressive Figure Drawing”, will be published by Watson-Guptill/Random House in late 2010. Buchman studied painting and drawing with renowned teacher Victor D’Amico at the Museum of Modern Art’s Institute of Modern Art, East Hampton, NY and also with leading American figurative painter Fletcher Martin at the Albany Institute of Art, in Albany, NY. Bill attended Cornell University, School of Fine Arts and Boston University, School of Liberal Arts and has a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in music from the New England Conservatory of Music. Buchman’s brightly colored spontaneous abstractions and his expressive figure drawings may be seen in private and public collections in Denmark, Sweden, England and the US. Bill’s other artistic accomplishments include being a skilled jazz pianist and composer, a writer of film music, poetry, and children’s stories.

Bill says, of his work, “Harmony is my keynote. Ideas from the realm of music are my main source of inspiration. A broad spectrum of ideas and techniques of European Modernism of the early 20th century, American Expressionism of the mid-century, the artistic philosophy and methods of Chinese and Japanese painting, as well as Renaissance and Classical concepts all provide bearings for my ongoing voyage.”