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About Claude Buckley

My goal is to create honest works of art that

will remain fresh for many generations." 

Claude Buckley has painted since he was a child. He paints for himself, but accepts

family, business, and governmental oil portraits and murals. 

The impressions of his youth in his native, Spain, have seeped into his art. 

Claude Buckley, born in 1959, is a third generation member of the successful Buckley family.

He attends to his international clientele from his studio in Camden, SC. 

His art decorates public and private homes in North, Central, South America, and Europe.

      Claude’s devotion to painting stems from his childhood in Madrid. His parents, author Reid

Buckley, and, Betsy Buckley, collected art and cultivated artist's as friends.    

      Until his family moved to the United States, the back stage of the Spanish Theatre of Madrid,

and the halls of the Prado Museum were his play yard.  There, he discovered the work of the great

Masters, and they spurred his innate vocation to art.

      Upon graduating from the University of the South, Claude moved to New York, to explore the

art world, and pursue his artistic vocation. There, he worked as a sculptor’s assistant, and

attended night classes at Parsons School of Design, and the New York Center for the Media Arts.

He painted the many homeless in his Bowery neighborhood.

      He was called back to Spain by his desire to paint the landscapes of his youth. While in Spain

he painted many landscapes, nine murals, and a portrait of the

King of Spain. He stayed there until 1991, when he returned to Camden,

to raise his boys, Ian and Aidan.

    He continues to travel world wide,  painting commissioned portraits and murals, while creating

other, more personal work, to placate his artistic desires.

PORTRAITS IN PUBLIC SPACES

2006, Buckley was commissioned a portrait of the famous

New York Times art critic, Hilton Kramer, by the

The New Criterion Magazine, of New York.

La Gran Peña de Madrid:  

H.R.M. Don Juan Carlos I de Borbon, King of Spain;

United States Court of Appeals. Preatyman Courthouse, Washington, DC:

The Honorable James L. Buckley;

The Federal Courthouse of Columbia, SC:

 The Honorable Robert F. Chapman; Senior Judge U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals;

Converse College Milliken Art Center, Spartanburg, SC: 

Mrs. Nita Milliken,

Milliken and Company, Spartanburg, SC:

Dr. Ashley Allen, CEO Milliken and Company;

 Dr. Buddy Malone, President, Milliken and Company

Dr. Thomas Clontz, Division President, Milliken and Company;

Robert Laidlaw, President Coats and Clark, Mexico;

Dr. Thomas O. Daisey, President Sandia Laboratories;

Dr. Buck Rogers, Senior International Marketing Director for IBM;

Mr. Gerrish Milliken; Mr. Minot Milliken; Mr. Jack Krol, President

of DuPont Corporation; and Mr. Livio Desimone, CEO of 3M.

The College of Charleston, SC Board Room:

Mr. Crayton McMaster, Chairman of the Board;

The Kershaw County Center for the Arts, Daniels Building:

Mr. John H. Daniels, CEO and President of Archer Daniels Midlands;

Chamber of Commerce of Greater Atlanta, Benning Room:

Mr. T. R. Benning, Chief Executive Officer Benning Construction Company;

The National Review Building Lobby, New York: 

William F. Buckley, JR;

MURALS IN PUBLIC SPACES

"AVE MARIA"  

6' x 11', 2005, acrylic on canvas

Our Lady of Perpetual Health,

Catholic Church, Camden, SC.

"THE BATTLE OF CAMDEN"

12' x 45', 2005, acrylic on canvas  Robert Mills Courthouse,

Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce, SC.

"ROOST OF THE WHITE IBIS"

6'x160', acrylic on canvas, 1999

Milliken and Company Information Center,

Spartanburg, SC.

"CHARLESTOWN, 1881"

8' x 10', acrylic on canvas, 1995

Law Office Boardroom of Ogletree, Nash,

Deakins, Smoak and Stewart , Charleston, SC.

"COLONIAL LIFE"

8' x 22', acrylic on canvas, 1993

Pine Tree Elementary School, Camden, SC.

"WATEREE LAKE"

6' x 9', acrylic on canvas, 1994

Joseph Dental Associates lobby. Camden, SC.