Wim van Rompuy. Born in Lier in Belgium on 12 December 1942. He was a painter and illustrator. Self-taught. ,,... Wim van Rompuy is a gifted naive painter. He need not take into account styles, trends and experiments. He only needs to be himself, and that he is. This is the only guarantee for his authenticity. With the most simple means of colour, shape, with love, without any delights, but honest and sensitive, he teaches us to recognise the beauty in the simplicity of everyday life. He depicts a pristine world with a clear link to reality, but with the added smell and climate of a poet. This is his great strength... ''