Mother and Child oil painting by Jeremy Van der want

Emotive animals

The artist, J Vanderwant finds examples of the better parts of life in the behavior of wild animals, The feeling of togetherness versus aloneness, the necessity of nurture and protection are made plain in the behavior of animals. The artist avoids human subject matter when dealing with feelings of this nature due to a sense of betrayal by human nature and so too were the creatures who embody these admirable characteristics also betrayed by human nature. The artist, J Vanderwant paints the feelings of a baboon family with a clear poetic admiration that he finds difficult to express when dealing with human subject matter.