Ad Wouters

Wouters was born in Dordrecht. Starting at the age of 13, he worked in construction.{{cite web |language=nl |url=http://www.achterdoechelen.be/134_5.htm |title=Achter d'oechelen (Local newspaper of Oud-Heverlee) |year=2006 |accessdate=2014-04-11 |archive-date=13 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413125729/http://www.achterdoechelen.be/134_5.htm |url-status=dead }} At the age of 22 he traveled to Africa with the Belgian NGO Bouworde.{{cite web |language=nl |url=http://users.skynet.be/fa281931/adwouters/Artikels/index.html |title=Article in a Flemish newspaper |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-date=22 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322043450/http://users.skynet.be/fa281931/adwouters/Artikels/index.html |url-status=dead }} After his stay in Africa, he went to live in Haasrode in Belgium, where he learned the skill of restoring buildings. Due to a work-related accident, where he fell from a church tower in the 90s he became unfit for this kind of work. From then on he developed himself as an artist.{{cite web | url=http://www.adwouters.be | title=Ad Wouters' own web site (Dutch) | accessdate=3 June 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517024658/http://adwouters.be/ | archive-date=17 May 2014 | url-status=dead }}

Wouters creates wood sculptures, mostly from oak tree trunks or from other recovered materials.{{cite web |language=nl |url=http://www.een.be/programmas/vlaanderen-vakantieland/saartje-wandelt-in-Zuid-dijleland-Deel-2 |work=Vlaanderen Vakantieland VRT (Flemish television), 2013 |title=Saartje wanders around Zuid-Dijleland (Jump forward to 7 minutes) |author=Saartje Vandendriessche |year=2013 |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140422234102/http://www.een.be/programmas/vlaanderen-vakantieland/saartje-wandelt-in-Zuid-dijleland-Deel-2 |archive-date=22 April 2014 |url-status=dead }} He created his first wood sculpture accessible to the public, De Bosprotter commissioned by the forestry services of Meerdaal forest in the year 2000. He created several other sculptures since then.{{Cite web |url=https://www.2fast4u.be/threads/21737-Motorrijder-komt-om-in-Oud-Heverlee |title=2fast4u.be |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092153/https://www.2fast4u.be/threads/21737-Motorrijder-komt-om-in-Oud-Heverlee |url-status=dead }}

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There is a path of 25 km one can take to march or cycle past most of Wouters' works through the woods of Heverlee and Meerdaal.{{cite web | url=http://www.toerismevlaamsbrabant.be/wandelen/het-pad-van-ad/index.jsp | title=Tourism services Flemish-Brabant | accessdate=3 June 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313151928/http://www.toerismevlaamsbrabant.be/wandelen/het-pad-van-ad/index.jsp | archive-date=13 March 2014 | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=http://leveninleuven.be/tags/ad-wouters | title=Touristic services Leuven | accessdate=3 June 2014}}

• Ignatius (2008)
• The director (2007)
• The Neanderthal man (2008)
• Bat (2006)
• The owl (2003)
• Woodpecker (2007)
• Inky cap (2007)
• Baloo (2010)
• The Bosprotter (2000)
• Drowned (2014)

De Bosprotter.jpg|The Bosprotter (2000)

The Bat (Ad Wouters) 1.jpg|Bat (2006)

Ignatius (DSC 1937).jpg|Ignatius (2008)

De Neanderthaler (DSC 1945).jpg|De Neanderthaler (2008)

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• Pootefretter (man eating carrot, which is the colloquial nickname for people from Haasrode) (1999), bronze statue in front of the community school of Haasrode
• Saint Michael (2009), brass statue in the Church of Saint Michael Leuven
• The Prophet (2012), wooden sculpture in the Sint-Donatus Park Leuven
• Arum lily wooden sculpture located in the orangerie of the Botanical garden of Leuven
• Drowned (2014), artwork made of litter, to symbolise how we are drowning in our own waste, located in Oud-Heverlee between the ponds.{{cite journal|language=nl |author=Erik Roosens |title=Zwerfvuilkunst siert Zoet Water |journal=Nieuwsblad |date=23 March 2014 |url=http://www.nieuwsblad.be/articulo/detail.aspx?articuloid=blero_20140323_001 }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Voor hen van toen, stone to commemorate the volunteers of natural reserve Doode Bemde. It's right next to a bridge of the now defunct tramway line.{{cite web|language=nl |author=DVA |title=Nieuws UIT Doode Bemde |publisher=Vrienden van Heverleebos en Meerdaalwoud |year=2011 |url=http://www.vhm.be/algemeen/nieuws-uit-de-doode-bemde |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712012127/http://www.vhm.be/algemeen/nieuws-uit-de-doode-bemde |archivedate=12 July 2012 }}Doode Bemde, Nieuwsblad, 19 February 2009 http://www.nieuwsblad.be/articulo/detail.aspx?articuloid=4U26M2UG_16{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.

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