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Widdicombe Fair by Ben Sands
Edition of 75 copies51cm x 41cm
Lot Number: 78
Artist Statement
1920-2016
Ben was born in 1920 in Westcliff-on-Sea, and in school he was forced to use his right hand for everything but his art. However, Ben’s art won him a scholarship to The Willesden College of Art in 1934. After National Service he enrolled at the Central School of Art, and then worked as a commercial artist in various studios, practicing skills in typography and illustration.
After his paid work as a typographic designer, his skills and creativity as a printmaker flowed through his free time, with broadsheets and hand-printed books produced by The Shoestring Press of Ben Sands. Retirement was a prolific art renaissance for Ben, who really got into his printmaking. Often taking sketches of Whitstable views and producing linocuts of them.
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