About
The way I see it, all paintings are abstract. Representational or non', they're made up of marks on a surface.
Predominately a landscape painter for over twenty years, my inspiration comes from every place I have had the privilege to experience or imagine. The discipline of working from life has facilitated my working from within.
The appeal of landscape as a subject is its abundance. From this source of form, color, shape, light and atmosphere exists endless symbolism, mood, design and allegory. I can begin working from anyone of these compelling features and even so I see my work as abstraction sublimated by imagery.
The appeal of landscape as a subject is its abundance. From this source of form, color, shape, light and atmosphere exists endless symbolism, mood, design and allegory. I can begin working from anyone of these compelling features and even so I see my work as abstraction sublimated by imagery.
Ron Wennekes
"Fallen" Oil on Panel 20" x 24"
Bio
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.