Artist Biography

Bill Buchman,  an internationally represented American artist,  lived and worked for twenty years in Europe, primarily in Copenhagen and Paris. In 2001 Bill moved to Sarasota, Florida where he teaches and has his studio.

Bill 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 expressive figure drawings and brightly colored spontaneous abstractions may be seen in private and public collections in Denmark, Sweden, England and the US and at galleries in Sarasota, Copenhagen, New York and other locales.

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


On top of exhibiting his work regularly (see Selected Exhibitions and Upcoming Exhibitions) Bill is popular as a teacher and lecturer and gives demonstrations, workshops and classes in figure drawing, abstraction, and the creative process. Bill is also an accomplished jazz pianist and composer(see Music Biography)., a writer of film music, poetry, and children’s stories and a photographer too. 

Bill newest works are on view at Gallerihuset, Studiestraede 19 in Copenhagen. (See Upcoming Exhibitions)

*NEWS FLASH: Bill's newest and most exciting project ever is the instructional DVD "The Art Of Figure Drawing: Essential Exercises". It is is distributed by MacPherson's and is available in select stores throughout the US. You may get it online now at www.filmbaby.com/films/2355 

 *MORE NEWS: Savoir Faire, importer and distributor of some of the world's finest art materials is a sponsor of Bill and his art.  Bill will be demonstrating Sennelier, Creta, Lascaux and Fabriano products in his upcoming demonstrations at Pearl Paint in Miami on September 12 and in Ft. Lauderdale on Sept 13 and at the Florida Watercolor Society Convention in Del Ray Beach, Fl. on Sept. 19th and 20th.

Selected Publications

DVD: The Art of Drawing the Figure, 2007                            CD’s: Out Of The Blue, 2004, Birthday Party w. Sammy Rimington, 1998
Children’s Short Stories: Solomon’s Wish, 2002; God Smiles, 2001
Poetry Book, Suite for Modern Man, 1988
Film Scores: Silence of Flight, 1998; Transformations, 1986
LP: Easy Street, 1980
Posters: Faroe Islands Jazz Festival, 2000; Galleri Aalborghallen, 1999; Gallerihuset, 1997; Landskrona Konsthall, 1995; Gammelgaard Kulturhus, 1991

More Recent Activities

Bill is on the faculty of The Ringling School's Longboat Key Center for the Arts and has given courses at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota as well. In May, 2004, PBS TV station, WEDU, in Tampa did a profile on Bill and his art and music for their cultural news program “West Coast Journal”. (see The Movie).

In the March of 2004 he was one of the featured artist’s in “Sarasota Creator’s and Collector’s Tour” presented by the Fine Arts Society of Sarasota.

In the summer of 2004 Bill gave a workshop entitled “The Creative Process” at the River Rock Studio art retreat in the Canadian Rockies outside of Calgary and Bill’s newest paintings sold out at an exhibit at the international art gallery, Gallerihuset, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Then, in October, Bill juried the annual “International Society of Experimental Artists” (ISEA) exhibition at the Alliance of the Arts in Ft. Myers, FL and gave a workshop there in “Creative Techniques and Ideas”. Also in October, Bill’s paintings were presented by Gallerihuset with other notable artists in Denmark’s largest yearly art fair entitled Art Copenhagen.

Since the beginning of 2005,  Bill has given lectures on the concepts of abstract painting with demonstrations of his painting techniques at Sarasota's Selby Library, at the Palm Aire Art Society in Bradenton, the Education Center on Longboat Key, and for the Fine Arts Society of Sarasota. During this period, Bill has given workshops for the Art League of Marco Island, and at Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the Tennessee Watercolor Society, as well as workshops and classes at The Longboat Key Center for the Arts, at Art Center Sarasota, and at Art Center Manatee.  Workshops in 2007 include the Venice Art Center, the Art League of Marco Island and Art Center Manatee. For the 2008-2009 season see Class and Workshop Schedule.

The transformation of the Sarasota warehouse into Bill's new studio is now complete. Bill newest works are on view at Gallerihuset  in Copenhagen. (See Upcoming Exhibitions)

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