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Jacques Viljoen

Artist
@jacques.art
🇿🇦 Figurative & Plein Air Painter 🎨 Working exclusively from life | Florence Academy of Art & Michaelis graduate | Contact Chandler House
  • Art & DIY
  • Following 3K
  • Followers 8.5K
  • Engagement 2.4%
  • Avg comments 8

About Jacques Viljoen

Jacques Viljoen (@jacques.art) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 8,472 followers and 288 published posts. Recent posts average 186 likes and 8 comments, an engagement rate of 2.4%.

Jacques Viljoen belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Jacques Viljoen follows 3,009 accounts, so the audience is roughly 2.8 times the size of the list followed. Jacques Viljoen is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Jacques Viljoen under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Jacques Viljoen runs to 17 words. Emoji sit alongside the words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Jacques Viljoen dates from December 2025.

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288 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Jacques Viljoen, 5 are carousels, 3 are videos and 2 are single images. No single format accounts for most of them. 288 published posts give Jacques Viljoen a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 29 followers for each post published. Jacques Viljoen also keeps 11 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 83 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include painting, oilpainting, pleinairpainting, life and south. The captions tag #oilpainting, #pleinairpainting, #easterncape, #southafricanartist and #southafrica.

Sometimes I spend hours or days working on a painting and it still doesn't come together; other times I sit down at the end of the day with a cold beer and leftover paint on my pallet and produce something passable in an hour or so.

#pleinairpainting #sunsetpainting #oilpainting #bulungula #easterncape

Painting's relationship to time is interesting and I find it fascinating how time both matters and doesn't matter all at once. Perhaps all painting is really about time?
The last day in Bulungula. There is so much to explore and paint here, so I'll be back for sure!
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#pleinairpainting #allaprima #oilpainting #southafricanartist #easterncape
Is anything off limits? Should some people be allowed to represent certain things, places and spaces, while others are prevented from doing so? Is there a difference between painting such a place from a photograph - or just taking a photograph - and painting it directly from life?

Personally I find the act of working from life to be an act of reverence for the divine: a meditation on nature and the gift of existence, unfiltered and unparsed by a mechanical intermediary. Intention is everything so I personally feel that its okay as long as it is done respectfully. Just wish I had a second session on this one.

What do you think?
#oilpainting #pleinairpainting #easterncape #southafrica #southafricanartist
"Bulangula, after the wedding". My cousin Josh got married at the foot of this hill the other day, so I decided to paint it. His new wife Tess, founded her own NGO called The Equality Colective, that actively works to improve the life of people in the area - the very people that have adopted Tess (and now Josh) as one of their own, insisting that the couple hold their wedding in the Villiage. The clan is called the "AbeLungu", which roughly translates to "The White People," as their founding ancestors were shipwrecked European, Asian, and Arab castaways who washed ashore over several centuries and were fully assimilated into native communities.

This whole experience has affirmed what I felt about South African identity, regardless of race: much like painting, all edges bleed into one another, making us who we are. What separates me from other first language English speakers is that I, and others like me, have grown up among the diverse peoples of this country, who have shaped the way I talk, think and act.
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#pleinairlife #southafricanartist #oilpainting #bulangula #landscapepainting
Transkai Part 1: Mercy Nqandeka is an extremely accomplished academic, currently doing a PHD in Public Health, focusing on indigenous knowledge systems. She gave me a moment of her time to talk a little about the area of the Easten Cape of South Africa that I'm currently painting in.
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#eastencape #transkai #southafrica #art #pleinairpainting
Come and join me painting in The Transkai, where the Bulangula river meets the sea.
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#easterncape #transkai #capetownartist #pleinairpainting #landcapepainting
Throwback to painting "The Reading" at last year. Photos by my friend the multi talented Alberto Feltrin
This work is available via
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#Figurativeart #portraitpainting #figurative_art #contemporaryrealism #oilpainting
"The Reading"
Oil on linen
110cm x 90cm
My final project at The Florence Academy of Art, painted over five weeks from life.

While I have spoken before about the cards laid out on the table - The Fool, The Queen of Swords and The Magician - I intentionally left the last card hidden, so you the viewer can insert any card they like into her hand.

On reflection, after drawing this chapter of my life to a close and before stepping out into a new year, I'd like for that last card to be The World.

What do you hope for yourself in 2026?
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#painting #oilpainting #figurative_art #figurepainting #contemporaryrealim
"Ndikuxolele" (forgive me /I forgive you)
oil on linen
40cm x 30cm

This is a deeply personal still life, and my last painting at The Florence Academy of Art. It features a cast by Gemito of "il Malatiello" (the sick boy), nestled against Protea flowers. Proteas are the national symbol of South Africa and the king of Fynbos, Capensis, the smallest of only six floral kingdoms in the world, and endemic only to The Western Cape of South Africa. The boy is wrapped in raw linen, used both for treating wounds and painting on.

This work can be interpreted in a personal manner, with the boy representing the inner child, or in a broader context relating to South Africa, where the cast's whiteness and the work's title take on new meaning. I would have been a similar age to this boy when apartheid ended in 1994.

#castpainting #stilllife #stilllifepainting #academicart #contemporaryrealim
The thing I love about South Africa is how crazily diverse it is. This is the West Coast National Park, a short drive away from Cape Town, famous for its stunning Namaqualand flowers. Every year I mean to go and paint them but I’ve missed their brief window every time.
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#painting #oilpainting #art #pleinairpainting #southafricanart

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Jacques Viljoen's engagement

Jacques Viljoen's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.4%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 42 followers. An average post collects 186 likes and 8 comments, close to 23 likes for each comment.

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2.4%

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Avg comments
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Who is Jacques Viljoen?

Jacques Viljoen (@jacques.art) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. Jacques Viljoen is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Jacques Viljoen runs to 17 words.

How many followers does Jacques Viljoen have?

Jacques Viljoen has 8,472 followers on Instagram (8.5K). Jacques Viljoen follows 3,009 accounts, so the audience is roughly 2.8 times the size of the list followed. 288 published posts give Jacques Viljoen a moderate archive on Instagram.

What is Jacques Viljoen's engagement rate?

Jacques Viljoen's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.4%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 42 followers. An average post collects 186 likes and 8 comments, close to 23 likes for each comment.

What does Jacques Viljoen post about on Instagram?

Flinque files Jacques Viljoen under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Jacques Viljoen, 5 are carousels, 3 are videos and 2 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Jacques Viljoen repeatedly use the words painting, oilpainting, pleinairpainting, life and south. Jacques Viljoen's captions carry hashtags such as #oilpainting, #pleinairpainting and #easterncape. Jacques Viljoen writes those captions mainly in English. Jacques Viljoen keeps 11 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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