ABOUT

Originally from coastal Maine, Ben has long loved the power of visual art, whether it be in books, galleries, art museums, comics, video games, or TV and movies.

He received a BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University and graduated from Gnomon, a digital visual effects school in Hollywood.

For the past 15+ years he's been working as a digital compositing artist on films, TV shows and commercials. He's contributed his artistic eye and expertise to projects for clients that include Disney, Lucasfilm, Marvel, MSG Sphere in Las Vegas, Lexus, BMW, Sony Pictures, Paramount, Hulu, Netflix, Fox, Apple and Google, to name a few.

More recently, after numerous years grinding in film and TV production, he's begun spending more of his non-work time intentionally slowing down and getting back to his traditional art roots. After working exclusively on computers and aiming for photo-realism for so long at his day job, playing with abstraction and tangible art materials again is a welcome retreat.

These days, he is often inspired by ethereal scenes and the magnificent but fleeting moments of natural light, color and space found in landscapes. His focus then moves towards how to best have fun depicting the inspiration in an interesting and satisfying way to his intuitive sensibilities.

When he's not working or doing something creative, he enjoys spending time with his beautiful partner, Maral, his family and friends, following his beloved Boston sports teams, playing golf, gardening, reading and getting outdoors in order to unplug and reset. He currently resides in Sonoma County, California.

A HUGE Thank You

A very special thank you to his cherished patrons and collectors.

Ben would also like to ackowledge all the encouragement, love and support he's been given throughout the years by his amazing parents, partner Maral(& her family), brother Shannon, aunt, uncle, grandparents(RIP) and extended family.

Many thanks to his digital and traditional art instructors and educators over the years including Jennifer Merry, David Hanright, Murray Tinkleman, Bob Dacey, Yvonne Buchanan, Roger Demuth, John Thompson, John McKaig, Jerome Witkin, David Hicock, Larry Royer, Alex Alvarez, Darrin Krumwiede, Kristin Bierschbach, Ergin Kuke, Martin Hall, John Mahoney, Jeremy Engleman, Suze Datz, Angela DeCicco, Miguel Ortega, Stephen McClure and Alex Cancado.

A hearty thank you to all of his dear friends, with a special nod for Josh, Brock, Atrane, Max, Christy, Dan, Kilian, Poole, Arch, Ryan, Anthony, TC, Kirsten, Parker and Trina.

Finally, a sincere thanks to his brilliant colleagues, excellent coaches and his remarkable classmates.

They've all been an invaluable part of the journey thus far.