SAC’s 2021 Featured Artist

Local Wedowee Artist
Opening Reception
Sunday, August 8th, 2021, 2-4 PM
Enjoy the Show Through September 2nd
Gallery
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About Ben
Biography
“Oil painting came early and late in my life,” says Ben Sansom.
After being discharged from the Air Force during the Korean War in 1954, Ben attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery, AL, and graduated in 1958 with a degree in art. He was offered a teaching position at a Montgomery high school with the purpose of establishing an art program. Ben taught art there for five years. During those early years of his art career, he won numerous awards and recognition in and around the Montgomery area.
Ben shifted his focus in education to the field of vocational education and administration where he remained until his retirement. Now, free to pursue art again, Ben’s passion is to capture the beautiful colors that exist all around us in a variety of subject matter and styles. Ben is 89 years young and now resides in Wedowee, Alabama.
Artist Statement
“I am a realist painter in a variety of brush and palette knife uses covering a broad subject matter. I must first acknowledge my thanks and devotion to God for the talent He so graciously placed in my hands. Over the many years of my life, I have been fortunate to have made many travels to places all around this world. Now, in my later years, I am able to draw from those experiences by transposing those reflections onto oil and canvas in a broad array of color, medium, and applica- tion. It is my hope that I can share through my paintings, the beauty of God’s handiworks.”
Works on Exhibit
Featuring Artwork from Ben Sansom
- WEDOWEE CREEK #2
16X20 oil
$425 - SLENDER CREEK
16X20 oil
$400 - GOLDEN GLOW
16×20 oil
$375 - ON COUNTRY ROAD 67
16×20
$525 - THREE OAKS
18×24 oil
$500 - OLD POST ROAD
16×20 oil
$500 - HIDDEN REFLECTIONS
16×20 oil
$500 - ISOLATED STREAM
16×20 oil
$500 - SHELTERED PATH
16X20 oil
$500 - SILENT COVE
16X20 oil
$500 - SHADY CREEK
16×20 oil
$475 - FEELING OF FALL
12×14 oil
$400 - GOIN’ FISHIN’
14X18 oil
$375 - ALONE
12×24 oil
$400 - COASTAL MARSH
16X20 oil
$500 - WEDOWEE CREEK #1
12×24 oil
$500 - SECOND DAY OF DEER SEASON
16X20 oil
$375 - SERENGETTI #2
12X14 oil
$375 - FOG OF YEARS PAST
16×20 oil
$525 - LEAVES OF FALL
12×16 oil
$375 - AUGUST EVERGLADES
16×20 oil
$500 - THREE LILIES
14X18 oil
$375 - POTTERY ON GRANDMA’s PORCH
16×20 oil
$475 - A RARE FIND
14×18 oil
$400 - POTTERY
18×24 oil
$550 - NOT A GOOD DAY FOR SAILING
12×16
$550 - STILL LIFE WITH RED
12×16
$500 - FIRST DAY OF DEER SEASON
18×24 oil
$400 - MARSH AT DUSK
16×20 oil
$550 - CEDAR POINT
16×20 oil
$400 - GOLDEN SHADE
12X16 oil
$350 - HIGH RIDGE PASS
16X20 oil
$300 - SUMMER SANCTUARY
11X14 oil
$300 - SEA OF GOLDEN
16X20 oil
$400 - DISTANT LANDSCAPE
14×17.5 oil
$400 - PEACEFUL SOLITUDE
12×24 oil
$525
Wow! Beautiful artwork!