A story about encountering a wild spirit by South African artist Jeremy Van der want. I had been walking for hours, tracking back and forth across the mountain slope. The grass was thick and grew in clumps around loose rock making it difficult to avoid using my hands to steady Read more…
I feel it is important to allow the public to understand that the village of Hogsback in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa is a hotspot for the most revolting homophobia. Drug addicts with sex problems masquerade as a ‘gay community’ but you just try and lead an ordinary Read more…
Here at no 48 Main road Hogsback Eastern Cape I am building a cabin from the trees on the land. It’s part of a long time dream the owner of the land here has to create a school that teaches people handcrafts and trades. I am an artist, a sculptor Read more…
Jeremy Van der want loves the flow patterns in this unique piece of willow. Jeremy agrees with Brancusi to find the mellifluous flowing form that underlies grace and beauty. Jeremy works in South Africa, seeking wild inspiration as a starting point for all artworks.
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 Read more…
You aren’t really thinking your thoughts. You are finding them. Length breadth and height are all dimensions. Dimensions in which material objects exist. Most people believe that it is possible to have an idea and then manipulate matter into some configuration of these three dimensions over time. A person might Read more…
South African artist Jeremy Vanderwant is very pleased to be accepted to exhibit art works at the Hamilton gallery in Wolf Street Cape Town. The two pieces on display at the gallery are concerned with the love of nature and the riddle of our cooperation with it. Looking for water Read more…
Jeremy Van der want How did we get here? How did we reach the state where powerful entities wreak havoc on our lives with apparently little concern for anything other than the profit margin? Why are we fighting wars all over the planet? Why are we depressed? How can it Read more…
The artist spends a good deal of his time wondering what has happened to people and why they are not looking at Nature the way it really is. Climbing into the hills high above a small town gives one time to reflect. The challenge of moving across natural terrain produces Read more…
Dreamboat is the second in a series of similarly coloured seascapes. Inspired by the colour impressions the artist experienced as a younger man living near the Knysna lagoon in the Western cape province of South Africa, the painting is a fantasy about sailing off into the blue. An escape from Read more…