I left the little wooden cabin in the earliest light of the day. Crisply cold air pinched my cheeks but my body was warmly ensconced in the leather jacket. Once at the dirt road I took a left turn, heading away from the lightening eastern sky towards the small village Read more…
In the rocks high above the town where I live the baboons lead another life that is just like ours but also completely different. If you go in the early evening to the top of the rocks where the wind blows and no voices are heard apart from the barking Read more…
I have always enjoyed my time spent in Queenstown in the eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The mountains which surround the basin in which the town lies are absolutely extraordinary. As an oil painter I find the area exquisitely inspiring. To wake up early in the morning and hike Read more…
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…