Raymond Logan is a representational artist who tends to shun the label of being a realistic artist. His work represents real life subject matter, but is firmly based in a naturally unique and intuitive abstraction.

Rather than viewing his art as abstract representations of people, places, or things, he views it as an abstract representation of himself—it represents his process of imagining. His color theory and generous application of his medium is strikingly distinctive. While his expression of imagining is delivered via his technique, the selection of his subject matter is also vital to his being able to reveal his creativity. His criteria for subject matter is straightforward: The subject must challenge him to express himself and grow as an artist. It also provides an entry point for the viewer; allowing for access to Raymond as an artist and what he is trying to achieve. Even if the viewer does not understand how he executed the piece, it speaks to them on some personal level and the subject matter often helps find the common ground between artist and viewer. Human beings are connected via people, places, and things. Sometimes those connections are based on memories, sometimes they are immediate. Either way, ethereal or evident, they are shared. Raymond considers his art to be a dialogue between himself and the viewer about those shared connections.

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While the communication between the artist and viewer is important to Raymond, his individuality as an artist is also essential to him. He states that during a show, he received the following compliment from another artist that just made him beam, “ . . . I like your work because I can walk into a room of a thousand works and go right to yours and know who did it!”