Glen Viljoen

Zimbabwean born painter/illustrator and designer Glen Viljoen follows his personal and innate creative impulse through a display of line and an audaciously unashamed colour palette. Working across realistic, abstract, stylized and representational styles...

His dynamic nudes, express symbolic qualities through bold shapes, tones and gesture. Each composition, intentionally emotional, displaying energy and presence. Using brushes and palette knives, each stroke creating unique and unpredictable interest beyond the works’ powerful figurative subjects. The contrasting styles used in these works are a sharp revolt against the artist’s commercial illustration work: www.viljoen.eu

The wildlife images are a reflection of the artist’s African heritage. His animals are painted in both a classical style with incredible accuracy and in a contemporary and conflicting style which evokes an overwhelming sense of the great Dark Continent. His wildlife paintings procure a strong focal point using space, composition, and light and dark.

His most recent move toward abstract works' are a chaotic orgy of colours, shapes and textures. A necessary appeal to the senses.

At present he currently works and resides in Ventabren in the south of France.