Viktor Tilson

Viktor Tilson - Artist

Born: 1964 Yateley, Hampshire, England.

I have been painting all my life and started selling work in the mid 1990's whilst working an office job. Yearly solo exhibitions were held around the UK and London. In 2000 (launched in London) I became one of the first British artists to showcase my work online with a dedicated web site.

I am untrained and classified as an "Outsider Artist" (basically called as such because I didn't attend art college or studied at university) My education back in the 1980's didn't include any history of art and, therefore, despite painting abstract from an early age, I had no way to classify what I was creating until well into my twenties. Having never visited art museums or anything like that I think this added tremendously to me finding my own style. The internet didn't exist when I started out!

Fast forward to 2010 and I finally decided to turn professional as sales of my work continued to grow. I developed a unique style of painting (Amalgamation) which combines amazing colour within what looks like a random design. I refined this technique over several years and these works have proved to be my most popular, propelling my career to a new level.

I rarely exhibit wo...

Yateley Comprehensive School, Yateley, Hampshire

1974 - Wokingham Town Hall, Berkshire, England
1994 - Basingstoke Library, Hampshire, England
1995 - Solo show at Digital Equipment Corp Gallery, Reading, Berkshire, England
1996 - Solo show at Digital Equipment Corp Gallery, Reading, Berkshire, England
1997 - Solo show at Poole Arts Centre, Poole, Dorset, England
2001 - BCN51 (1st European Bi Sexual & Art Exhibition) Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2001 - Barclays Bank HQ, Docklands, London, England.
2003 - Islington Art Exhibition, London. England
2011 - Art in the Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
2012 - Viktor Tilson & Friends, The Gardens Gallery, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
2013 - Art in the Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England