The Wellington Art Society will host Sandra Thompson as featured artist and speaker at the group’s next meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at the Wellington Community Center, located at 12150 W. Forest Hill Blvd. The evening will also include a meet-and-greet, member spotlight and raffle. For more information, contact presidentofwas@gmail.com.
Better known as “the Palm Beach Artist,” Thompson is a living legend who has for the rest of time preserved the history of Palm Beach’s European architecture in her more than 400 lovingly crafted and detailed portraits of some of the most beautiful homes on Palm Beach Island.
Born in New York, she grew up on the North Shore of Long Island and studied art and design at Cooper Union before working with Grey Advertising and Redbook Magazine. She moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1961 and was the first editorial artist for the Fort Lauderdale News and the Sun-Sentinel. In 1999, she moved to Palm Beach, where she fell in love with the architecture and started painting some of the most well-known locations and buildings. More than 160 of her paintings have been featured on covers of The Palm Beach Real Estate Guide.
Thompson is the founding owner of the Hangen Thompson Gallery on Palm Beach in Via DeMario off Worth Ave. She won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Palm Beach, A Retrospective, The Art of Sandra Thompson. Private tours of her paintings may be arranged upon request.
The Wellington Art Society is a nonprofit charitable organization in its 43rd year. It is open to artists of all mediums and patrons of the arts, allowing both local and regional artists to display their artwork in local galleries, interact with other artists and serve the community through their art.
For more information, visit www.wellingtonartsociety.org.
