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Wood Carving in Hogsback
Every day I do a little bit more work on the cabin that I’m building up here at number 48 main road hogsback in the eastern Cape Province of South Africa. I also get out my chisels, sharpen them up Read more…
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Hogsback Artist
As an artist I find that the environment in the Eastern eastern Cape mountains above the village of Hogsback is rather inspiring the light is quite beautiful and the Flora and Fauna available to see are quite extraordinary. I find Read more…
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Portraiture by South African Artist Jeremy Van Der want
The meaning of a portrait to this South African artist The meaning of art is yet mysterious. I am a South African artist and I spent my life making art of one sort of another and the best explanation that Read more…
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Baboon Mother
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 Read more…
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Queenstown
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 Read more…
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Night Jackal
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 Read more…
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Building by hand in Hogsback Eastern Cape South Africa
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 Read more…
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Together too dolphin carving.
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 Read more…
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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. Read more…
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Consciousness, Art and the Fourth Dimension
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 Read more…