Ad Wouters

[3] 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.

[4] Wouters creates wood sculptures, mostly from oak tree trunks or from other recovered materials.

[5] He created his first wood sculpture accessible to the public, De Bosprotter commissioned by the forestry services of Meerdaal forest in the year 2000.

[6] 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.