Biography
Artist: Ron Wennekes
Ron Wennekes is an artist and illustrator that lives and works in NW Indiana. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and his illustrations have been published internationally.
Wennekes briefly attended Hope College in Holland, MI prior to admission to the American Academy of Art in Chicago where he studied figurative painting. To augment this training, he sculpted the human figure at The Naguib School of Sculpture in Beverly Shores, IN. Subsequently spending summers at Oxbow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI, he returned to focus on painting.
Predominately a landscape painter, Ron balances his time between the business of commercial illustration and painting in his studio.