Roger Bansemer - Phone
727-797-4658
email: bansemer@bansemer.com
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Roger Bansemer is
one of today’s most versatile and insightful artists. Spanning four prolific
decades, his paintings cover a wide spectrum from earlier abstract works to
the present day representational paintings of landscapes, shorebirds,
wildlife, beachscapes, and nautical themes. After authoring and carefully
rendering hundreds of paintings used in his books on lighthouses, he has
become known as America's premier painter of lighthouses. |
Roger’s work has
appeared in many magazine articles including Forbes, Smithsonian, and
American Artist and has been featured on the Today Show with Gene Shallit. Awards of
excellence given by William F. Buckley through the Mystic Maritime Museum in
Connecticut were presented to Roger for his nautical paintings. Bansemer has been the guest of two expeditions to the Titanic and made the two-and-a-half mile dive in a Russian submersible. Roger was the 112th person to dive to the stricken ship and the first artist ever to have done paintings while actually on the bow of Titanic. His experience has resulted in a book filled with artwork and narrative titled Journey to Titanic with a foreword by filmmaker James Cameron. Titanic Page Roger is also an accomplished videographer. Roger and Sarah Bansemer travel the U.S. working on a TV series called "Painting & Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer". You can view these videos free of charge. Video Page and read more about the upcoming TV series at our information page. |
FLAT ROCK, N.C. LOCATION
Map to gallery
If you are visiting the mountains of North Carolina this summer, we invite
you to visit the new Bansemer Gallery of Fine Art
located in Flat Rock, NC. (near Hendersonville and about half way between
Greenville, SC and Ashville, NC)
3460 Greenville Hwy, Flat Rock, NC 28731
To view available original Bansemer paintings done in this
mountain area, click
here.
Flat Rock is a great place to visit and many trails are available for hiking or if you're like me, just to drive around. At an elevation of over 2,000 feet, our gallery is just two miles from the famous "Flat Rock Playhouse" and the Carl Sandberg home, now part of the National Park and a magical place to spend some time, especially in the farm and barn area where Sandburg's wife once raised goats.
FORMER CLEARWATER, FL STUDIO
For 28 years this was the Bansemer home and studio. It is now sold to someone else and we are travelling the U.S. in an RV working on a TV series called "Painting & Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer." It was a wonderful place but Sarah and I are ready for some change in scenery and looking forward to new adventures. You can still reach us by phone however at 727-797-4658.
This small outbuilding is my workshop where I do repairs.
Yes, I really had a caboose on my property!
Another view showing the 3 story studio. It overlooks a gentle creek around the
other side.
You can phone Roger Bansemer directly at 727-797-4658 or email: bansemer@bansemer.com
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Some more detailed information Bansemer exhibits primarily through his studio and galleries in Clearwater, Florida and Flat Rock, North Carolina. When not working on books or lecturing he accepts commissions from clients worldwide. Michener used Bansemer's book Southern Shores as reference material for his book Recessional. Michener says, "...here was a major part of my research already done for me, in fine style and in full color. Southern Shores was a godsend, the best gift I’d received in years. In fact, I was so favorably impressed by it that I sat immediately down and typed out a fan letter to the author (Bansemer) praising him for his excellent work." The book Mountains in the Mist came about as a result of Bansemer's love for the Smoky Mountains. The friendship between Michener and Bansemer resulted in a camping trip in Bansemer’s van exploring the mountain areas. Michener then did the foreword for Bansemer's book.. From this trip also came a joint teaching seminar with Michener at the University of Texas. |
Bansemer's other books include Southern Shores, Roger's most popular book about the South, At Water's Edge, a book about Florida birds, Rachael's Splendifilous Adventure, a story about a little girl and her adventure in a hot-air balloon, and Horses of the Sun, a book by Robert Vavra about horses with over 100 drawings by Bansemer. The Art of Hot-Air Ballooning, and Journey to Titanic are also included in Bansemer's prolific output. The books, "Bansemer's Book of Florida Lighthouses", and Bansemer's Book of Carolina and Georgia Lighthouses are now available through bookstores or you can order it directly from the author and have it autographed. The books include easy to read location maps, illustrations of the lighthouses, history, and personal notes. The lighthouse section of this website also includes many of the same paintings of lighthouses, maps, and information. |
Roger & Sarah Bansemer
e-mail or phone
727-797-4658 for more
information.
Click
here
for detailed street map of the Clearwater FL studio.