Welcome to Buchheister Fine Art

The purpose of this website is to communicate with those who have a general interest in my art and in the events taking place at my studio. I will update the information periodically with new paintings, studio events, and news, so please come back and check the site often.

-Raymond Buchheister

Artist Statement

I create visual works of art in a variety of medium, but my first love is oil painting. In this endeavor I set out to produce works that represents the truth of what I see in a style often characterized in the art world as representational art or realism.

With regard to my artistic endeavors, I find myself always at the beginning of a new road. I’m constantly grappling to learn technique, and the works that I’m currently creating are being done in an effort to further the technical skills of my craft.

In the future it is my hope to handle paint with a confidence that will allow me to take on more complex subject matter. I look forward to my work becoming more narrative, having deeper meaning, work that embodies the human condition and evokes the viewer to see and think of what they have never encountered before.

It is my goal to not only evoke the viewer’s eye, but to move their heart, mind, and soul. I desire to produce work that will stir the very core of the viewer so as to reveal unseen truth about human kind, like Rembrandt did with his painting ‘The Return of the Prodigal Son.’