Ben Farnham

It’s been more than forty years since Ben Farnham moved form his home-town of Woodland, California to Sausalito where he started a family and commenced his hobby of watercolor painting of Marin landscapes.

 Ben began as a Sunday painter while working thirty-seven years for Emporium-Capwell. He has enjoyed classes at College of Marin and has taken workshops from Robert E. Wood, Christopher Schink, Charlotte Britton, Charles Reid, Frank Webb, and Skip Lawrence. For twelve years he was a member of Jerry Stitt’s class in Sausalito.

 Marin is not the only place Ben studies, however. He has painted in the Greek Isles with Carolyn Buchanon, in Italy with La Romita artists, in Provence with Shirley Landgraf and most recently on a four-painter fishing boat in Alaska with Catherine Gill.

 Since 1989 Ben has been honored to be accepted in Marin/Scapes art exhibited every 4th of July weekend at the Escalle winery in Larkspur. He has also been included in exhibits organized by the Marin Watercolor Society, the Mendocino Art Center, The Northwest Watercolor Society, the Salmagundi Club in New York, the New England Watercolor Society, and the Marin Society of Artists.  He achieved his signature status with the California Watercolor Society in 1998 and is an associate of the National Watercolor Society.