About the Artist
Beverly S. Benson
"I am a colorist painter. My work reflects a love of nature as I capture the array and arrangement of hues it has to offer. My language is strokes, blends, harmony and dynamics of structure. Light carves out space as the strength of the light predicts the intensity of the hue.
I am intrigued as much with the colors in the dark as I am with those in the light. Construction of a picture to me is a constant push and pull of idea: composition, architecture of light, surface texture, believability, authenticity, abstraction, dream, illusion, reality, forgetting the picture plane... remembering. My best pieces have evolved when there was a paradoxical engagement of the deep subconscious simultaneously with heightened awareness."
Curriculum Vitae
Beverly S. Benson's childhood was spent in the bucolic woods of Bucks County. Most of her childhood memories include making things: shaped out of mud, crafted from found objects, on or with paper. She credits the support from her kindergarten art teacher in Solebury Elementary, all of the public school art teachers of Central Bucks School District especially Charlene & Thomas Lavinia, Mrs. Stroup and her private instructor Jacques Fabert, for providing her with a strong belief in the value of making art in our society.
Receiving her BFA from Philadelphia College of Art, she studied with David Fertig, Jane Piper, Harry Soviak, David Kettner, Boris Putterman, Warren Rohrer, Larry Day, Tom Stearns and Morris Berd. Later, she was drawn to the work of Carol Kardon and considers her a profound mentor. She acquired her teaching certification from West Chester University.
Currently, Beverly works in oil, acrylic, collage, chalk and oil pastels. She shows in many art spaces in the tri-state area/Delaware Valley. She has been juried into many shows and art leagues as well as honored with prizes. She has taught in public and private schools, art centers, the Philadelphia Department of Recreation, and the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts. Beverly has shared her artistic enthusiasm by facilitating artmaking to people of all ages. She is the mother of two artists and lives with her photographer husband Greg Benson in Delaware County, PA.
-Juried Members Exhibition, Phila Pastel Society, Henry Gallery, Penn State Great Valley, Malvern, PA Jan-Mar 2024
-2nd National Open Juried Exhibition, Phila Pastel Society, Wayne Art Center, Sept-Oct 2023
-At Home, (Invitational), Cerulean Art, Philadelphia, PA, May-June, 2023
https://ceruleanarts.com/pages/at-home
-Walking Through my Thoughts: Curated by Bill Scott, Cerulean Arts Gallery, Philadelphia Oct – Nov, 2022
John Thorton Film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni6trSceaj8
-1st National Open Juried Exhibition, Phila Pastel Society, Community Art Center, Wallingford, PA
Sept-Oct 2022
-Hello Soring, Philadelphia Pastel Society, Beaumont, Bryn Mawr, April -May 2022
-Annual Solo Shows: Kelly’s Music, Havertown, PA Dec 2019, Dec '20, Dec 21, Dec 22,
-Faculty Exhibition(s), Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA, Since 2004
-For the Love of the Land, Lambertville Hall, Lambertville, NJ, 2016
-Professional Artist Members, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA, 2016
-Once in A Lifetime: Studio Show, Havertown, PA, 2015
-Invitational Show, Muse Gallery, 2011
-38th Annual Daylesford Abbey Art Show. Paoli, PA, 2010
-One Person Show: Artist of the Month (Invitational), Rosemont School of the Holy Child, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2010
-One Person Show, Penn Wynne Library, Wynnewood, PA, 2009
-Small Works The Artists House, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
-People, Places, Things: Hardcastle Gallery, Centreville, DE, 2009
-Art of the Flower Show, Juried, (Prize Winner) Philadelphia Sketch Club, Phila, PA, 2009
-Penn Med Juried Spring Show, Delaware Valley Art League, Radnor, PA, 2009
-Art and Design @ 50: Expo, University of the Arts, Phila, PA, 2009
-New Artists, The Artists House, Phila, PA, 2009
-Solo Show, Merion Art and Repro Center, Ardmore, PA, 2008
-Beverly Benson: Garden Paintings, Private Estate, Haverford Township, PA, 2008
-The Artist in the Garden, 5th Annual Garden Fair, (invitational) Winterthur Museum, Winterthur DE, 2008
-Breast Strokes, Breast Cancer Benefit, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA, 2008
-Recent Allegorical and Garden Paintings (Solo show), Marketplace at East Falls, PA, 2008
-41st Juried Art of the State: Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 2008
-Penn Med Juried Summer Show, Delaware Valley Art League, Radnor, PA, 2008
-59th Tinicum Art Festival, (Pastel Prize), Erwinna, PA, July 2008
-142nd Juried Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Phila, PA, 2008
