Crepis

Wim van der Kant (b. 1949, Kampen) is a self-taught artist. In addition to his busy job as a teacher, he is an inspired sculptor. Only when his work met his own perfectionist conditions did he decide to go public and show his work to the world. Since then, starting in 1995, he has been exhibiting at Morren Galleries. Van der Kant likes to make sculptures of young people, who are still curious and uninhibited in life. The reason for sculpting boys is that he himself is of the male gender. He believes that artists produce better work when the subject is close to them. The anatomy of the figures, which he sculpts, show perfection. The sculptures show similarities to Greek and Roman antiquity, where youngsters were admired for their vitality and naivete.
Because the anatomy and small details in the sculptures are of great importance, the artist does this sanding and patination all by himself.