Trawlers and Tugs Blog

The long and successful art career of Roger Bansemer is amazing! He has worked in a number of styles but lately focuses on representational paintings of landscapes, shorebirds, wildlife, beachscapes, and nautical themes. In particular he has become known as America’s premier painter of lighthouses.

His book, Southern Shores, evoked this quote from the late Walter Cronkite: “. . .his brush and his pen capture not only its beauty, but its fragility in the hands of man.” Novelist James A. Michener used the book as a reference for his own novel Recessional; and as a result, a close friendship developed between the two.

Michener then wrote the foreword for Bansemer’s book, Mountains in the Mist, saying, “Under his tutelage I saw things that I had not noticed closely because I realized that with his artist’s eye he could see things I didn’t.”

If you missed his television appearances, still, you can view his nautical paintings at the Mystic Maritime Museum in Connecticut.

Bansemer has been the guest of two expeditions to explore the wreck of the Titanic, making 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 another book filled with artwork and narrative titled Journey to Titanic with a foreword by filmmaker James Cameron.

Bansemer and his wife Sarah travel the U.S. creating together a TV series called “Painting & Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer”. If you visit his website,you can view these videos free of charge.

Delve deeper into the many sides of this artist! Visit his website today.

Carol Lois Haywood