painter | artist | art teacher

paintings ● political ● portraits ● digital art ● photocollage

Victoria Sybrandi (VIXI) was born in 1971 in England and brought up in the Netherlands. She has a bachelor's degree in (Art) Education (Amsterdam) and was awarded two grants to study Art at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna. She combines painting and digital art with art teaching at a secondary school.

VIXI's paintings are realistic, and generally focus on people. Alongside commissioned portraits, people also play a major part in her non-commissioned paintings. A good example of this is a series on her family based on old family photographs, in which she has captured her family history with its international background.

Her recent artwork - paintings and digital art - is based on current events and (recent) world history inspired on news reports and photographs in newspapers and the internet. In this way, VIXI allows her political commitment to percolate into her artwork, not as standard images but in an unusual and sometimes comical or confrontational fashion. Her work reflects her view of the world in combination with the social problems of our time such as racism, discrimination, terrorism, the refugee crisis, womens rights and climate change.

For more information about her work or commissions, please contact her.