Voices of Experience - John Pototschnik

Woodland Garden 30 x 30” Oil

“I enjoy depicting simple, common, everyday life and its objects as things of beauty and worth. I intend to show the dignity and value of the subjects I paint - just as my artistic influences have. Through continued hard work I want to give to society paintings that transcend the culture and its ever changing tastes. . . paintings that speak to the heart.”

John Pototschnik (Poe-toe-sh-nick) has traveled the artist’s road as an illustrator and designer, speaker, juror and fine artist. The skills he refined in his early design and illustration career have provided a solid foundation upon which he has built his reputation as an accomplished landscape painter.

He did not come to art from early exposure to it or a family background of artists. In fact, he considered business or accounting as his possible career choices when beginning college. He tells this story of a moment that changed his pathway and directed him toward a c…