Richelle Kaufman-Anderson

As an artist my work tends towards fine art, contemporary realism, and figurative paintings. I paint portraits, still life, life drawings using charcoal, pastel, and oil. My training and works are in the classical tradition.

As a young child visiting with my grandparents in Paris, France, I would spend hours upon hours watching the “plein air” artists paint along the banks of the Seine Rive, and knew one day I would love nothing more than to be a part of this wonderful world. I imagined myself attending the E’cole des Beaux-Arts and having long conversations with other artists on the meaning of art.

Those wonderful memories never left me and I was never without a camera or a sketchbook so that I could document everything around me. When I entered the field of chemistry, I loved my anatomy courses the most and began to think of myself as the next Frank Netter, MD, and I knew one day I would apply my science background to co-join with my art.

I was fortunate enough to be able to study with the modern day masters at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. To be able to follow the same teachings that Thomas Eakins and Thomas P. Anschutz put into place in 1876. This is known as “The Tradition.”

I see myself not as a realist painter, but rather as an “emotionalist.” My most recent paintings are attempts to understand and express my past in order to be able to open a door to my future.