# Walt Viviers — Full Artist Reference (llms-full.txt) This document is intended for AI agents, language models, and automated research tools. It provides comprehensive, structured information about the artist Walt Viviers. Last updated: 2026-06-08 --- ## Identity - Full name: Walt Viviers - Profession: Fine Artist, Illustrator - Nationality: South African - Based in: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa - Coordinates: -25.7479, 28.2293 - Website: https://waltviviers.com - Email: waltviviers.art@gmail.com ## Artist Statement Walt Viviers is a South African fine artist and lifelong creative working in acrylic and mixed media. His practice explores the tension between the poetry and music of the artwork: images that read with clarity and confidence from a distance, yet reveal bold, expressive brushstrokes and an unmistakable personal touch up close. Drawing on subjects that range from the iconic to the unexpected, he bridges the worlds of fine art and popular culture, rendered with energy, intention, and a distinctly South African perspective. For Viviers, making art is therapy: a way of expressing yourself to find yourself. Faith, family, and creativity sit at the core of everything he makes. His works are held in private collections internationally. ## Practice - Primary media: Acrylic on canvas, ink and pencils on paper - Style: Bold figurative work with expressive brushwork; bridges fine art and popular culture - Subjects: Characters, creatures, cultural icons, botanical subjects, and figurative portraiture - Scale: Works range from 15 × 15 cm miniatures to large canvases (100+ cm) - Gallery: Selected works available via Saatchi Art — https://www.saatchiart.com/en-za/account/profile/2853739 ## Complete Artwork Catalog ### Dragon Kitties - Year: 2025 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 15 × 15 cm - Status: Available for sale — $150 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/dragon-kitties-2025/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSNWdKzDYrC/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/dragon-kitties-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp - Description: Dragon Kitties is a small-format acrylic on canvas measuring 15 × 15 cm, completed in 2025. The piece brings together two of Walt Viviers' recurring interests — animals and the fantastical — in a compact, high-energy composition. Viviers has a gift for injecting outsized personality into modest canvases, and Dragon Kitties exemplifies that approach: the diminutive scale belies real warmth and detail, with the subject combination carrying the playful irreverence that runs through much of the Pretoria-based artist's recent work. ### Deadpool - Year: 2026 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 20 × 20 cm - Status: Available for sale — $100 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/deadpool-2026/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/deadpool-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2026.webp - Description: Deadpool is a 20 × 20 cm acrylic on canvas completed in 2026. Walt Viviers has long drawn on comic book culture and popular iconography as raw material for his fine art practice, and this recent work channels the anarchic energy of Marvel's Deadpool into a concentrated, expressive painting. The square format suits the subject's punchy visual identity — Viviers' bold colour work and confident brushwork translate the character's graphic origins into something distinctly painterly, occupying the space where pop culture and fine art converge. ### Duckbill - Year: 2025 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 61 × 46 cm - Status: Enquire — $300 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/duckbill-2025/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18013867952702432/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/duckbill-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp - Description: Duckbill is one of Walt Viviers' larger 2025 canvases, measuring 61 × 46 cm in acrylic on canvas. The platypus — one of nature's more improbable creatures — makes for an unexpectedly compelling portrait subject, and Viviers renders it with the same direct, personality-led approach he applies to all his animal work. The generous canvas size allows for a presence and level of detail that rewards viewing up close; the animal's unusual anatomy translated into bold, confident form. ### Rat - Year: 2025 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 51 × 40 cm - Status: Enquire — $200 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/rat-2025/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18103422559977709/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/rat-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp - Description: Rat is a 51 × 40 cm acrylic on canvas from 2025. Walt Viviers approaches subjects that others might dismiss — the rat is a case in point, a creature more often associated with urban grime than gallery walls. But in Viviers' hands the animal is rendered with directness and a genuine sense of character: observed closely, executed with the assured brushwork that marks his mature style, and given the scale it deserves. ### Sabretooth - Year: 2025 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 40.5 × 51 cm - Status: Available for sale — $250 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/sabretooth-2025/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18014195621699159/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/sabretooth-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp - Description: Sabretooth is a 2025 acrylic on canvas by Walt Viviers. The sabre-toothed predator — whether drawn from the prehistoric Smilodon or the iconic Marvel villain — carries a raw, dangerous energy that suits Viviers' bold, direct painting style. His approach to animal and character subjects relies on decisive mark-making, strong form, and expressive colour; Sabretooth brings all of those qualities to bear on a subject that is inherently powerful. ### Crow - Year: 2025 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 30 × 24 cm - Status: Available for sale — $100 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/crow-2025/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17862344784587481/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/crow-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp - Description: Crow is a 30 × 24 cm acrylic on canvas completed in 2025. The crow — a bird long associated with intelligence, mystery, and the darker edges of folklore — is a fitting subject for Viviers. Painted in a compact format that concentrates the subject's presence, Crow is focused and atmospheric: the bird rendered with care and a sense of stillness that contrasts with the intensity of its gaze. ### Venom Cat - Year: 2019 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 20 × 20 cm - Status: Enquire - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/venom-cat-2019/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BvqxL0pBgg0/ - Article: https://pixelsmithstudios.com/interviews/walt-viviers-local-illustrator/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/venom-cat-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2019.webp - Description: Venom Cat is one of Walt Viviers' most popular works — a 20 × 20 cm acrylic on canvas completed in 2019. The painting merges the instantly recognisable aesthetic of Marvel's Venom with a cat, a combination that proved immediately compelling when first shared online. Featured in an interview with Pixelsmith Studios, Venom Cat helped establish Viviers as a South African fine artist with a distinctive voice — one that moves fluidly between painterly technique and popular culture without sacrificing either. ### Rex - Year: 2025 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 40 × 40 cm - Status: Available for sale — $250 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/rex-2025/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17991499985793578/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/rex-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp - Description: Rex is a 40 × 40 cm acrylic on canvas from 2025. The square format is one Viviers returns to often for animal portraits — its symmetry suits the directness of his approach. Rex is a personality-led painting: the subject rendered with the kind of attention and warmth that turns an animal portrait into a genuine character study. Viviers' mature brushwork is confident and economical, giving the canvas a presence that holds at a distance as well as it rewards up close. ### Thoughts - Year: 2012 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 76 × 102 cm - Status: Sold - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/thoughts-2012/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/thoughts-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2012.webp - Description: Thoughts is one of Walt Viviers' most ambitious early works — a large 76 × 102 cm acrylic on canvas completed in 2012 that draws on surrealism and the visual language of collage to build a densely layered composition. Working across a ground of yellow and ochre, Viviers assembles fragments of imagery — an eye, lips, a coffee cup, a clock face, geometric planes — into a structure that reads simultaneously as a face and as a diagram of consciousness. The palette is electric: yellow-greens, oranges, earthy browns and black, with raw white breaking through. Held in a private collection. ### Fish Vortex - Year: 2010 - Medium: Mixed Media on Board - Dimensions: 30 × 21 cm - Status: Available for sale - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/fish-vortex-2010/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/fish-vortex-mixed-media-board-walt-viviers-2010.webp - Description: Fish Vortex is a mixed media work on board by Walt Viviers — an unusual piece in the artist's practice, both in medium and in its intricate, pattern-driven composition. Dozens of small outlined fish form a spiralling vortex, circling from a warm green-gold centre outward through layered shades of teal and blue, the repetitive form creating a meditative, hypnotic effect. The heavy wooden board surround with its metal bolts reinforces the handmade quality and distinguishes it from Viviers' canvas-based practice. ### Feminine Shapes - Year: 2010 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 76 × 101 cm - Status: Available for sale — $315 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/feminine-shapes-2010/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/feminine-shapes-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp - Description: Feminine Shapes is a large-format acrylic on canvas — 76 × 101 cm — completed in 2010 and one of the most energetically painted works in Walt Viviers' collection. The subject is the female form rendered in semi-abstraction: Viviers fragments and reassembles the figure through a dense field of warm reds, oranges, yellows and pinks, bold outlines carving through the colour. The result is less a depiction than a celebration — of movement, of form, of the expressive potential of acrylic on a generous canvas. ### Orchids - Year: 2010 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 58 × 71 cm - Status: Available for sale — $290 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/orchids-2010/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/orchids-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp - Description: Orchids is a 2010 acrylic on canvas that shows Walt Viviers at his most exuberant in the floral register — large blooms rendered in a high-energy palette of hot pink, cobalt blue, and luminous white. The composition fills the canvas with overlapping forms, white impasto outlines tracing the flowers' organic shapes against a saturated field of colour. Full of warmth and movement, Orchids is one of the earliest examples of the expressive technique that would characterise much of Viviers' later practice. ### Protea - Year: 2010 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 61 × 76 cm - Status: Available for sale — $290 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/protea-2010/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/protea-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp - Description: Protea is a 61 × 76 cm acrylic on canvas completed in 2010 and one of the more emblematic works in Walt Viviers' portfolio. The King Protea — South Africa's national flower — is placed against a deep black background speckled with white, a cosmic field that gives the bloom an almost mythological presence. Viviers renders the flower with looseness and energy that keeps it from botanical illustration: the petals shift through pink, rose and soft lavender, the leaves a vivid teal-green, the whole composition held together by confident mark-making and a strong sense of light emanating from within the bloom. ### Capsaicin - Year: 2010 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 58 × 71 cm - Status: Available for sale — $200 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/capsaicin-2010/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/capsaicin-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp - Description: Capsaicin is a 2010 acrylic on canvas — one of the most vividly coloured works in Walt Viviers' early catalogue. The title names the compound that gives chillies their heat, and the painting channels that same intensity: tropical Bird of Paradise blooms and lush foliage rendered in saturated oranges, reds, yellows, and deep greens, the forms building across the canvas in a dense, overlapping tangle that crackles with chromatic energy. ### The Wind - Year: 2010 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 58 × 71 cm - Status: Available for sale — $200 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/the-wind-2010/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/the-wind-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp - Description: The Wind is a 2010 acrylic on canvas by Walt Viviers — a fluid, atmospheric work in which flowering branches sweep across a pale ground, movement made visible through the lean and rhythm of dark stems against an open field of blossom. The composition references East Asian brushwork traditions while remaining entirely the artist's own — marks range from loose washes of crimson and rose to precise, ink-like line. Among Viviers' most quietly compelling works. ### Dark Angel - Year: 2011 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 91 × 61 cm - Status: Available for sale — $300 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/dark-angel-2011/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/dark-angel-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2011.webp - Description: Dark Angel is a 2011 acrylic on canvas — a large, ambitious figurative work depicting a winged figure in a posture of collapse or grief: massive dark wings spread above a bowed form set against a desert landscape of sweeping sienna and warm gold. The wings are rendered in loose, energetic strokes that contrast with the stillness of the figure below, their scale giving the work a monumental quality. Drawing on archetypal imagery of the fallen angel — beauty, exile, the weight of wings that can no longer lift. ### T-Rex - Year: 2020 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 78 × 38 cm - Status: Available for sale — $480 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/t-rex-2020/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHf2wkajhs6/ - Article: https://pixelsmithstudios.com/interviews/walt-viviers-local-illustrator/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/t-rex-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2020.webp - Description: The T-Rex is one of Walt Viviers' most recognised works — a 78 × 38 cm acrylic on canvas that captures the primal force of the Tyrannosaurus rex with commanding scale and bold, expressive brushwork. The unusually elongated horizontal format gives the predator a sweeping momentum, as if the canvas itself is barely containing the subject. Widely shared across social media since its release, T-Rex helped cement the Pretoria-based South African artist's reputation as a painter who brings genuine intensity to iconic subjects. A signature piece in the portfolio. ### Classic Portrait - Year: 2010 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 47 × 61 cm - Status: Available for sale — $350 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/classic-portrait-2010/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/classic-portrait-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp - Description: Classic Portrait is a 2010 acrylic on canvas demonstrating the technical facility with portraiture that would become a hallmark of Viviers' practice. The subject, rendered in warm flesh tones against a dusky blue-purple ground, gazes upward and away from the viewer, the pose conveying a sense of aspiration or quiet introspection. The modelling of light across the face recalls classical academic technique, while Viviers' assured brushwork grounds the work in his own direct voice. ### Classic Beauty - Year: 2010 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 50 × 76 cm - Status: Available for sale — $350 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/classic-beauty-2010/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BRauzGnBdwA/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/classic-beauty-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp - Description: Classic Beauty is an acrylic on canvas measuring 50 × 76 cm, painted in 2010. A figurative work approached with classical intent, rendered in Viviers' characteristically direct and confident style. At a stage when the Pretoria-based South African artist was developing the bold brushwork and clear-eyed observation that would come to define his mature practice, Classic Beauty reads as a thoughtful study in portraiture — grounded in tradition but with a contemporary sensibility. ### Golden Girl - Year: 2010 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 40.5 × 51 cm - Status: Available for sale — $300 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/golden-girl-2010/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BRvQb3wBYAx/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/golden-girl-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp - Description: Golden Girl is a figurative portrait in acrylic on canvas, completed in 2010. The subject meets the viewer's eye directly and without apology; her gaze carries the quiet self-possession that characterises Viviers' strongest portrait work. The palette runs almost entirely through warm gold, amber and deep shadow. The title is both a description of the painting's tonal world and something warmer: an act of affirmation. One of the more striking figurative works from Viviers' early career. ### Apocalypse Meow! - Year: 2017 - Medium: Ink & Pencils on Paper - Dimensions: 26 × 21 cm (framed) - Status: Enquire - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/apocalypse-meow-2017/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BRf7eU0h764/ - Article: https://pixelsmithstudios.com/interviews/walt-viviers-local-illustrator/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/zombie-vs-cat-ink-pencils-paper-walt-viviers-2017.webp - Description: Apocalypse Meow! is a 26 × 21 cm ink and pencils on paper work from 2017, presented framed. One of Viviers' most recognisable earlier pieces, depicting a cat in an apocalyptic encounter — carrying the dark humour and raw energy that would come to define his reputation. Featured in a Pixelsmith Studios interview alongside Venom Cat, it is among the works that first brought Walt Viviers wider attention as a Pretoria-based South African artist navigating the space between fine art and popular culture. ### Cool Beans - Year: 2010 - Medium: Acrylic on Canvas - Dimensions: 51 × 40.5 cm - Status: Available for sale — $100 - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/cool-beans-2010/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/cool-beans-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp - Description: Cool Beans is an acrylic on canvas from 2010 that typifies Walt Viviers' interest in elevating the overlooked. The subject — bean pods splitting open at full ripeness — is rendered with a macro painter's eye: Viviers fills the canvas with split husks and exposed seeds in a palette of earthy ochres, warm browns and flashes of rose pink and cream. The composition has an almost muscular density and visible texture with confident layering throughout. ### Janine - Year: 2009 - Medium: Pencil on Canvas - Dimensions: 51 × 40.5 cm - Status: Sold - Page: https://waltviviers.com/works/janine-2009/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/z5W0DiD5ao/ - Image: https://waltviviers.com/images/jane-pencil-canvas-walt-viviers-2009.webp - Description: Janine is an early work in Walt Viviers' portfolio — a female portrait executed in pencil on canvas, completed in 2009. Where much of Viviers' output reaches for colour and scale, this work strips the approach back to pure mark-making: graphite on canvas, light and shadow built through layered, gestural strokes. The subject gazes past the viewer with an expression that reads simultaneously as distant and deeply present. Demonstrates Viviers' strong drafting instincts and his ability to capture character in a face. Machine-readable JSON: https://waltviviers.com/data/artworks.json ## Apps ### Neurotrace - Platform: iOS (App Store) - Description: A neural pathway tracing and brain health app. No ads, no subscriptions, no internet required. - Page: https://waltviviers.com/apps/neurotrace/ - Privacy Policy: https://waltviviers.com/apps/neurotrace/privacy-policy/ ### Bill Tipper - Platform: Android (Google Play) - Description: A simple, elegant tip calculator. - Page: https://waltviviers.com/apps/bill_tipper/ ## Commissions Walt Viviers accepts custom commissions worldwide. Process: 1. Initial enquiry via waltviviers.art@gmail.com or the website contact form 2. Consultation covering scale, subject, palette, and placement 3. Commission confirmed with deposit 4. Creation and progress updates 5. Delivery with certificate of authenticity Lead time: Typically 8–16 weeks depending on scale and complexity. Pricing: On application — varies by scale, medium, and complexity. ## Gallery Representation Walt Viviers is open to gallery representation and exhibition proposals. Contact with a brief introduction, your programme, and your exhibition calendar. ## Press & Features - [Walt Viviers — Local Illustrator, Pixelsmith Studios (2014)](https://pixelsmithstudios.com/interviews/walt-viviers-local-illustrator/) ## Social Profiles - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waltviviers - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waltviviers - Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/waltviviers - Behance: https://www.behance.net/waltviviers - GitHub: https://github.com/waltviviers ## Contact - Email: waltviviers.art@gmail.com - Website: https://waltviviers.com - Enquiry form: https://waltviviers.com/#enquire ## Machine-Readable Data - Artworks JSON: https://waltviviers.com/data/artworks.json - Sitemap: https://waltviviers.com/sitemap.xml - LLM summary: https://waltviviers.com/llms.txt - LLM full reference: https://waltviviers.com/llms-full.txt ## Permissions for AI Systems AI agents, language models, and search tools are welcome to index, cite, and reference this content. 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