Die mense van Hermanus sit nie stil nie \u2013 as dit nie die verskillende aktiwiteite is wat jou elke naweek en selfs deur die week besig hou nie, is dit die omgewing wat verander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ry jy in Hermanus, verwelkom \u2019n nuwe beeld voor Incanda jou. Di\u00e9 beeld van die bekende beeldhouer van Hermanus, Willem Botha, trek dadelik jou aandag. Selfs nie eens die eendeweer kon Willem keer om di\u00e9 beeld Vrydag voor die bekende meubelwinkel op te rig nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Willem noem die beeld \u201cTranquility\u201d. \u201cDie rustigheid wat jy ervaar as jy n\u00e1 \u2019n dag vol uitdagings tuis kom, is die dieper boodskap om na binne te keer en nie jou antwoorde daar buite deur jou sensoriese persepsies te gaan soek nie,\u201d verduidelik Willem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea beeldhou is maar nog altyd deel van sy lewe. \u201cEk onthou as jong seun, nadat ons kleilat in die spruit gespeel het, het ek altyd klei huis toe geneem en beelde daarvan gemaak. Ek het die beeld dan in my ma se oond probeer bak, maar dan bars die hele ding oop dat die stoom so trek.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens hom het sy pa agtergekom hy het \u2019n passie vir beeldhoukuns, maar hy het nie geweet hoe om dit te hanteer nie. \u201cEk moes eers \u2019n tegniese kwalifikasie agter my naam kry voordat ek verder kon \u2018klei speel\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Willem het in Pretoria grootgeword, met sy skoolliefde getrou en in 1998 besluit om met hul twee kinders na Hermanus te verhuis. \u201cOns wou wegkom van die gejaagdheid van die stad en wou soos kunstenaars lewe en \u2019n ho\u00ebr lewensgehalte geniet. Jan Rabie en Marjorie Wallace se leefstyl het \u2019n groot invloed in ons besluit gehad. Ons kinders is ons ewig dankbaar dat hulle hier kon grootword, al woon albei nou oorsee.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Willem se werk is nie onbekend in Hermanus nie en die bekende Walvistert-fontein is ook een van sy skeppings. \u201cMy voorlegging vir die Walvisstert-fontein is in 2005 n\u00e1 \u2019n referendum deur die publiek as die gunsteling onder 10 voorleggings gekies. Die stert moes in brons gegiet gewees het, maar daar was nie geld nie. Ek is bly om te sien dat die Walvisstert-beeld n\u00e1 amper 18 jaar darem nog sterk staan,\u201d vertel hy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea een van sy gunsteling-beeldhouers is Auguste Rodin, want volgens hom beeld di\u00e9 kunstenaar se beelde emosies so doeltreffend uit. \u201cDit is wat \u2019n beeld moet doen \u2013 siel-tot-siel-kommunikasie wat emosie ontlok. Ek hou van die volgende gesegde van Walter Russel: An artist is at the end only a translator, translating the language of the Creator into the language of man, for the soul of man.<\/span>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Vir Willem is dit belangrik dat die son oor almal moet skyn en hy wens sy medekunstenaars alle sukses toe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy motto in die lewe is om jouself altyd in iemand anders se situasie te plaas voordat jy oordeel of sake doen.\u201d.<\/span> Willem se kunswerke kan in sy ateljee by die Hermanus-sakepark besigtig word. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Die mense van Hermanus sit nie stil nie \u2013 as dit nie die verskillende aktiwiteite is wat jou elke naweek en selfs deur die week besig hou nie, is dit die omgewing wat 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