{ "artworks": [ { "title": "Apocalypse Meow!", "year": "2017", "medium": "Ink & Pencils on Paper", "dimensions": "26 x 21 cm (in frame)", "available": "sold", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/zombie-vs-cat-ink-pencils-paper-walt-viviers-2017.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/BRf7eU0h764/", "article": "https://pixelsmithstudios.com/interviews/walt-viviers-local-illustrator/", "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, the work depicts a cat in an apocalyptic encounter — carrying the dark humour and raw energy that would come to define his reputation. Ink and pencil on paper allows for a level of immediacy distinct from his acrylic practice: gestural, spontaneous, and full of expressive line quality. Featured in a Pixelsmith Studios interview alongside Venom Cat, Apocalypse Meow! 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. Enquire for acquisition details." }, { "title": "Aztek", "year": "2009", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "", "available": "sold", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/aztek-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2009.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/BLxnJ3CBL05/", "article": "", "description": "" }, { "title": "Books", "year": "2010", "medium": "Acrylic Pens and Letraset", "dimensions": "", "available": "sold", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": true, "image": "images/books-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/BNJ7TFRjtoW/", "article": "", "description": "" }, { "title": "Cheetah", "year": "2008", "medium": "Acrylic on Board", "dimensions": "61 x 81.5 x 0.5 CM", "available": "enquire", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/cheetah-acrylic-board-walt-viviers-2008.webp", "price": "R 4 500", "instagram": "", "article": "", "description": "Cheetah is a 2008 acrylic on board measuring 61 × 81.5 cm, painted during the same early period in which Viviers was developing his confident, expressive approach to animal portraiture. The cheetah — nature's fastest land animal — is rendered with an energy that feels appropriate to the subject: alert, precise, and intensely focused. The work demonstrates Viviers' early command of animal anatomy and his ability to translate that understanding into emotionally resonant imagery. Available for acquisition." }, { "title": "Cracked", "year": "2010", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "", "available": "sold", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/cracked-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "", "article": "", "description": "" }, { "title": "Crow", "year": "2025", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "30x 24 x 2 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/crow-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp", "price": "R 3 300", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17862344784587481/", "article": "", "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, who has consistently found genuine depth in the animal world. 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. Walt Viviers is a Pretoria-based South African fine artist whose animal paintings have been widely shared and are among his most collected works. This original acrylic on canvas is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "Capsaicin", "year": "2010", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "58 x 71 x 4 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/capsaicin-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "R 3 500", "instagram": "", "article": "", "description": "Capsaicin is a 50 × 41 cm acrylic on canvas from 2010 — 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 are 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 composition's warmth is almost physical. A layered, heavily worked surface gives the painting real presence, and the balance between the fiery florals and the cool greens of the tropical leaves creates a tension that holds the eye. The original is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "Dragon Kitties", "year": "2025", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "15 x 46 x 4 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/dragon-kitties-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp", "price": "R4 800", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DSNWdKzDYrC/", "article": "", "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. Part of a productive 2025 body of work that sees Viviers pushing into new subject territory, this original acrylic is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "Cool Beans", "year": "2010", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "51 x 40.5 x 3.5 cm", "available": "on_show", "on_show_link": "https://maps.app.goo.gl/9Kcab5zjXx54R5XC7", "featured": true, "hidden": false, "image": "images/cool-beans-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "R 3 300", "instagram": "", "article": "", "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 moves in close and fills the canvas with split husks and exposed seeds, working in a palette of earthy ochres, warm browns and flashes of rose pink and cream. The composition has an almost muscular density; the pods push against one another across the picture plane with a sense of natural abundance that borders on the excessive. There is humour here too — the title carries the knowing lightness of a phrase well past its peak — but the painting itself is serious in its craft, with visible texture and confident layering throughout. Cool Beans sits in the tradition of artists who find real material richness in botanical and everyday subject matter, and demonstrates that Viviers can bring the same force and intention to the natural world as he does to figurative work." }, { "title": "Classic Beauty", "year": "2010", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "50 x 76.5 x 4", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/classic-beauty-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "R 10 000", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/BRauzGnBdwA/", "article": "", "description": "Classic Beauty is an acrylic on canvas measuring 50 × 76 cm, painted in 2010 — one of the earlier works in Walt Viviers' portfolio. The title and vertical format suggest a figurative subject 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. The generous scale gives the subject room to breathe and rewards close inspection. The original is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "Classic Portrait", "year": "2010", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "47 x 61 x 4 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/classic-portrait-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "R 9 700", "instagram": "", "article": "", "description": "Classic Portrait is a 2010 acrylic on canvas by Walt Viviers — a figurative work that demonstrates the technical facility with portraiture that would become a hallmark of his 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. Signed in 2010, this painting belongs to an important formative period in the Pretoria-based South African artist's development, when he was building the figurative language that underpins his mature practice. Enquire for acquisition details." }, { "title": "Dark Angel", "year": "2011", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "91 x 61 x 3.5 cm", "available": "on_show", "on_show_link": "https://maps.app.goo.gl/9Kcab5zjXx54R5XC7", "featured": true, "hidden": false, "image": "images/dark-angel-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2011.webp", "price": "R 9 000", "instagram": "", "article": "", "description": "Dark Angel is a 2011 acrylic on canvas by Walt Viviers — a large, ambitious figurative work that ranks among the most striking of his earlier paintings. The composition depicts 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 — the painting handles familiar symbolism with directness and restraint. Enquire for acquisition details." }, { "title": "Deadpool", "year": "2026", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "20 x 20 x 3 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/deadpool-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2026.webp", "price": "R 3 000", "instagram": "", "article": "", "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 practice converge. One of Viviers' most recent works, Deadpool reflects the Pretoria-based South African artist's continued appetite for culturally charged subject matter. Enquire for acquisition details." }, { "title": "Duckbill", "year": "2025", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "61 x 46 x 5.5 cm", "available": "enquire", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/duckbill-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18013867952702432/", "article": "", "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. Based in Pretoria, Viviers has built a reputation for finding authentic character in animal subjects that others might overlook. Duckbill is a standout piece in his 2025 collection. Enquire for acquisition details." }, { "title": "Feminine Shapes", "year": "2010", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "76 x 101 x 2 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/feminine-shapes-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "R 9 000", "instagram": "", "article": "", "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. The brushwork is confident and direct, with passages of impasto sitting alongside thinner, more fluid marks. Feminine Shapes belongs to a body of figurative-abstract work from this period that shows Viviers working at full creative stretch, using the human form as a vehicle for pure painterly investigation. The work is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "Fish Vortex", "year": "2010", "medium": "Mixed Media on Board", "dimensions": "30 x 21 cm", "available": "sold", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/fish-vortex-mixed-media-board-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "", "article": "", "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 board mount is integral to the work's character — the heavy wooden surround with its metal bolts reinforces the handmade quality and distinguishes it from Viviers' canvas-based practice. A playful yet carefully constructed piece, Fish Vortex demonstrates a more contemplative side of the Pretoria-based South African artist. The original is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "Four Seasons", "year": "2012", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "", "available": "sold", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": true, "image": "images/four-seasons-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2012.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "", "article": "", "description": "Four Seasons is a large 2012 acrylic on canvas — a woman's face fractured like cracked porcelain, each shard carrying a different temperature of colour. Wintry whites and greys sweep through her hair, autumnal oranges burn at the edges, and cool teals and spring greens move through the face itself, so that the four seasons coexist in a single countenance. The crackle motif does double duty: it maps the passage of time across the portrait while lending the surface the quality of an old fresco or weathered ceramic. Painted in a pivotal year of Viviers' development, it is among his most ambitious early canvases — expressive, technically daring, and unafraid of scale. This original has been sold." }, { "title": "Golden Girl", "year": "2010", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "40.5 x 51 x 3.5 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/golden-girl-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "R 9 000", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/BRvQb3wBYAx/", "article": "", "description": "Golden Girl is a figurative portrait in acrylic on canvas, completed in 2010. The work belongs to a strain of Viviers' practice focused on the female figure — intimate, close-framed, and executed in a palette that runs almost entirely through warm gold, amber and deep shadow. The subject meets the viewer's eye directly and without apology; her gaze carries the quiet self-possession that characterises Viviers' strongest portrait work. A delicate necklace and the dark strap of a garment anchors the figure in the physical while the painterly background — rich, loose brushwork in layered dark gold — keeps the composition in the register of mood rather than literal depiction. The title is both a description of the painting's tonal world and something warmer: an act of affirmation. Golden Girl is one of the more striking figurative works from Viviers' early career and is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "Janine", "year": "2009", "medium": "Pencil on Canvas", "dimensions": "51 x 40.5 x 2 cm", "available": "sold", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/jane-pencil-canvas-walt-viviers-2009.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/z5W0DiD5ao/", "article": "", "description": "Jane is an early and revealing 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, Jane strips the approach back to pure mark-making: graphite on canvas, light and shadow built through layered, gestural strokes. The subject — a woman with short, wind-swept hair — gazes past the viewer with an expression that reads simultaneously as distant and deeply present. Viviers handles the contrast with confidence: areas of dense, shadowed tone sit against broad sweeps of near-white, giving the work a cinematic quality that belies its intimate scale. Jane demonstrates Viviers' strong drafting instincts and his ability to capture character in a face — qualities that underpin his figurative work across mediums. As an early sold work, it marks an important point in the development of an artist who has since built a substantial body of painting, but whose facility with drawing remains evident in every canvas." }, { "title": "Kitten Squared", "year": "2008", "medium": "Acrylic on Board", "dimensions": "61 x 81.5 x 0.5 CM", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/kitten-sqaured-acrylic-board-walt-viviers-2008.webp", "price": "R 3 000", "instagram": "", "article": "", "description": "Kitten Sqaured is an early acrylic on board from 2008, painted at a generous 61 × 81.5 cm. The work belongs to a cluster of animal studies Viviers produced during his formative years, exploring form and character through a subject that is deceptively simple yet endlessly expressive. Rendered with a directness that would become a hallmark of his practice, the kitten commands the board with quiet confidence. The original is available for enquiry." }, { "title": "Mana", "year": "2012", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas Board", "dimensions": "", "available": "sold", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/mana-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2012.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/BUUON9JhomB/", "article": "", "description": "Mana is a 2012 acrylic on canvas board — an intimate still life of a blue glass bottle, painted from a low, close vantage that makes the humble object feel monumental. The title is a playful nod to gaming culture, where the blue potion bottle is the universal symbol of restored magical energy, but the painting itself is a sincere study of glass, light and reflection. Loose, confident strokes of cobalt, teal and cream capture the way light pools and bends through the bottle's shoulders and rim. A small work with an outsized presence, Mana sits at the intersection of pop sensibility and classical still-life observation that defines much of Viviers' practice. This original has been sold." }, { "title": "Orchids", "year": "2010", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "58 x 71 x 4 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/orchids-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "R 9 000", "instagram": "", "article": "", "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, with the kind of loose, gestural energy that distinguishes his best work from botanical illustration. 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. The painting demonstrates his ability to translate the exuberance of natural forms into pure painterly sensation. Enquire for acquisition details." }, { "title": "Pikachu", "year": "2019", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "", "available": "sold", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": true, "image": "images/pikachu-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2019.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/BvPTIzcBDqt/", "article": "", "description": "Pikachu is a 2019 acrylic on canvas capturing the world's most famous Pokémon mid-laugh — eyes squeezed shut, mouth open in pure delight. Viviers frames the character inside a painted polaroid-style border against a deep blue field, with ears and tail breaking playfully out of the frame, a compositional wink that gives the piece its energy. Painted the same year as Venom Cat, it belongs to a body of work in which Viviers brings genuine painterly care to pop-culture icons: soft gradients through the yellows, warm blush on the cheeks, and the texture of the canvas left visible beneath. The result is joyful without being throwaway — a comfort character given the still-life treatment. This original has been sold." }, { "title": "Pondtificate", "year": "2008", "medium": "Acrylic on Board", "dimensions": "61 x 81.5 x 0.5 CM", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/pondtificate-acrylic-board-walt-viviers-2008.webp", "price": "R 10 000", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DZegi9BN0Xk/", "article": "", "description": "Pondtificate is a 2008 acrylic on board, 61 × 81.5 cm, whose title is itself a piece of wordplay — a blend of 'pontificate' and 'pond' that signals Viviers' wit alongside his painterly skill. One of a series of animal works from this year, the piece captures a moment of contemplation, its subject rendered with the loose, assured brushwork that characterises Viviers' early board paintings. An original from a significant year in his development as an artist." }, { "title": "Protea", "year": "2010", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "61 x 76 x 4 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/protea-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "R 9 000", "instagram": "", "article": "", "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 a looseness and energy that keeps it from botanical illustration: the petals shift through pink, rose and soft lavender, the leaves a vivid teal-green at the base, the whole composition held together by confident mark-making and a strong sense of light emanating from within the bloom itself. That the protea is a recurring symbol in South African culture adds resonance without limiting the work's reading — Viviers uses the subject as a vehicle for pure painting, and the result is a piece that reads powerfully from across a room. Protea is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "Rat", "year": "2025", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "51 x 40 x 3.5 cm", "available": "enquire", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/rat-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18103422559977709/", "article": "", "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. The medium-large format ensures the subject has real presence. This is Viviers at his most straightforwardly honest — no irony, no distancing, just a Pretoria-based South African fine artist looking hard at a living thing and putting it on canvas. Enquire for acquisition details." }, { "title": "Rex", "year": "2025", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "40 x 40 x 4 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/rex-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp", "price": "R 7 000", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17991499985793578/", "article": "", "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. The Pretoria-based South African artist has developed a distinctive voice in animal painting — Rex is a strong example of it. The original is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "Sabretooth", "year": "2025", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "40.5 x 51 x 3.5 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/sabretooth-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2025.webp", "price": "R 7 000", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18014195621699159/", "article": "", "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. A striking addition to Viviers' 2025 body of work, the painting demonstrates the Pretoria-based South African artist's ability to find the emotional core of a subject and transfer it directly to canvas. The original is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "T-Rex", "year": "2020", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "78 x 38 x 3.5 cm", "available": "enquire", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/t-rex-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2020.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/CHf2wkajhs6/", "article": "", "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. Painted in 2020, it sits at the intersection of Viviers' interest in the animal world and his appetite for subjects that carry cultural weight. 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. It remains one of the signature pieces in Viviers' portfolio. The original is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "The Wind", "year": "2010", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "58 x 71 x 4 cm", "available": "available", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/the-wind-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2010.webp", "price": "R 7 400", "instagram": "", "article": "", "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 is animated by Viviers' confident brushwork: marks range from loose washes of crimson and rose to precise, ink-like line, creating a painting that references East Asian brushwork traditions while remaining entirely the artist's own. Viviers' floral work consistently demonstrates his ability to find energy and life in simple subject matter; The Wind is among the most quietly compelling of these paintings — a work in which stillness and motion coexist on the same canvas. The original is available for acquisition." }, { "title": "Thoughts", "year": "2012", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "76 x 102 x 4 cm", "available": "enquire", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/thoughts-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2012.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/wlMHFEj5Uh/", "article": "", "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, a pair of lips, a coffee cup, a Roman numeral clock face, an infinity symbol, geometric planes and dripped paint — 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 passages of raw white breaking through. Thoughts sits in the tradition of artists who approach the canvas as a space for mental accumulation rather than singular statement, and it remains one of Viviers' most complex and rewarding paintings. It is held in a private collection." }, { "title": "Venom Cat", "year": "2019", "medium": "Acrylic on Canvas", "dimensions": "20 x 20 x 5 cm", "available": "enquire", "on_show_link": "", "featured": false, "hidden": false, "image": "images/venom-cat-acrylic-canvas-walt-viviers-2019.webp", "price": "", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/p/BvqxL0pBgg0/", "article": "", "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. The small square format packs considerable visual punch, the subject's high-contrast markings lending themselves naturally to Viviers' bold, confident brushwork. The original is available for acquisition." } ] }