What happens when the clients who built your art career start to disappear? Wouter saw the pattern before it became a crisis.

Talking origin, really as a small child, as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to drawing and painting.

There were these stores where you could buy magazines, and they always had this section where they had pencils and notebooks, and I would always walk there and just to look at the pens.

And my dad is an artist, and even at a young age, he would already take me out doing plein air painting.

So I have these great memories from very early on being in the meadows with my dad doing paintings.

It has never been a question for me whether I would pursue drawing or painting.

I didn't really have in mind what the occupation would be.

He's built his entire approach to teaching around protecting it.