James Richman is a portrait and landscape oil painting artist who lives in Ojai, California. While many of his landscapes depict various locations in Ojai, he also paints in other locations such as the Big Horn Mountains near Shell Wyoming, Lake Tahoe, the Santa Ynez Valley, and Manchester by the Sea.

Over the past 15 years, James has studied art at some of the finest art schools in the United States, including the Scottsdale Artists’ School, the Brentwood Art School, the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, and the Kline Art Academy. James has painted with such fine artists as David Leffel, Sheri McGraw, Robert Moore (landscapes), Dustin van wechel (wildlife), Louis Carr (portraits), Joel Hein (portraits), Dan Schultz (plein air), Linda Gooch (skyscapes), Jerry Salinas, and others. In his work, James strives to give the viewer a reflection of approachable beauty and serenity through figurative and colorful oil paintings.

James recently retired as the Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Ojai Valley Museum, whose mission is to collect, display, and educate people about, the art, history and culture of the Ojai Valley. He also served on the Board of the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum. Before focusing on oil painting, James served as a partner in real estate and construction transactions at some of the finest law firms in Southern California where, for forty years, he represented major clients in such projects as the tallest building in downtown Los Angeles, most of the major buildings at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the financial services headquarters for Computer Sciences Corporation in Austin, Texas, the acquisition of major farms, ranches, and high end homes in California, and joint ventures for major commercial and residential development. In 2013, James was honored as the Real Estate Attorney of the Year by the California State Bar Real Property Section.