Jeannine Viljoen

Jeannine Davidoff (Viljoen) is an ambidextrous artist, author and educator. Jeannine grew up in Johannesburg and has moved around South Africa living in 5 of the 9 provinces. Her careers include fine art, graphic design and illustration, freelance journalism and writing, teaching yoga, permaculture farming and facilitation.

Jeannine has authored 8 books and has another approximately 40 in the pipeline. Her genres include fine art books, poetry, photography, children's, environmental education and recipe books. Her books are available in hard copy from Amazon and PDFs are available on Blurb.

Jeannine works with mixed media, collage, pen, pencil, pencil crayon, watercolor and enjoys using recycled materials. Jeannine's themes are nature based, realism, fantasy, and mandalas with bouts of cartooning. Intuitive drawing and mandalas are a big part of Jeannine's daily routines. She enjoys plein air and urban sketching.

Jeannine is developing her skills as an ambidextrous artist. Initials experiments with her non-dominant hand starting in the late 2000s and now she has a large body of ambidextrous works.

The work featured in this profile picture was created partially during a live art stream on twitch.tv. It is a pencil crayon fan...

John Skotnis and then Steven Risi taught Jeannine Davidoff art at the Yeoville Recreation Centre during the early 80's. Margery Bradfield-Smith was Jeannine's teacher in East London in early 2000's. Jeannine attended live model drawing classes at the Animation School, Cape Town in 2013/4 with Stuart Coutts. These teachers were a fantastic influence and the rest of Jeannine's art education has come through observation, self-study and experimentation, especially with ambidexterity skills.

2025 - Virtual Art Exhibition - 40 Portraits (of 100) on Virtual Art Gallery

2024 - current - live art stream on twitch.tv - Monday, Wednesday and Friday

2014 - Art B - Tiny Treasures

2014 - Third Installation of Black and Yellow: Collaborative Exhibition at Studio 41

2013 - Heirloom Collective Exhibition (Cape Town)

2010 - Everyone Counts (KZN)

2008 - Venus Rising, Rosebank Oval (last exhibition in the space before the Gautrain was built)