Your Creative Push

John Wentz is a contemporary painter whose work is an exploration of process and technique. Working within the classical idiom of the human figure, his goal is to reduce and simplify the image to it’s core fundamentals: composition, color, and mark making. John was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has had 3 solo exhibitions in San Francisco and numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His works have appeared in many publications and have won multiple awards.  Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/johnwentz In this episode, John discusses: -How he landed in fine art after his foray in illustration. -How a Gerhard Richter exhibition changed his life and remapped his brain. -Art being about discovery and experimentation. -The power that comes from disconnecting in order to do some soul-searching. -Cave paintings and how we have always been creating art, and even risking our lives to do so. -How he has struck a balance from his former lifestyle of a donut a day and b