Wendel Field ~ Artist
About Wendel
Wendel
Field was born in Deputy Indiana, USA with extraordinary talents. As a very young
boy his incredible artistic abilities were
immediately evident. Wendel had no
teacher or any kind of training, and no
artistic tools to work with so he began
drawing on the back of pieces of wallpaper
with a common pencil at the age of six.
Soon the adults around
him recognized his innate gifts and
encouraged him to submit his works in school
art contests. Unfortunately his
talents surpassed other contestants so much,
that his works were dismissed by the judges
because they assumed such quality
compositions must have been done by adults.
This continued until he received an art
scholarship at Indiana University and moved
to Bloomington Indiana and the broad range
of his natural talent was publically
recognized.
For the next few
decades Wendel would continue live in
Bloomington Indiana and produce a
never-ending stream of museum quality works
of arts. Although he is an
accomplished painter
in oil and acrylic, Wendel is also a master
of stone carving, wood carving, wall murals,
large rock gardens and just about anything
artistic you could think of.
For over a decade Wendel painted the
annual
lead driver (pole sitter) of the Indianapolis 500 mile
race, the top distinguished alumni for
Indiana University and the annual IU men's
basket ball calendars. His
works have been placed all around the world,
including with collectors such as
Stephen Spielberg.
Wendel executes all his works with a
technical precision seldom seen in today art
world. But it is the life and spirit he
infuses into each project that draws the
viewer into a direct experience of the Art
itself.
Wendel currently lives in
Tiruvannamalai India during the winter and returns
to America in the summer
to work on projects.