Veks Van Hillik

Veks Van Hillik (born 1988) is a painter, tattoo artist and street artist based in Toulouse. He grew up in a small village in south-west France, where the surrounding nature gave him an early taste for drawing, with the encouragement of his older brothers. He first trained as a cook. Graphic design classes and the discovery of art history then led him to drawing and painting, to which he devotes himself entirely.

His first exhibition took place in Toulouse in 2010. His murals also cover walls in France. The Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes lists eleven of his works, dated from 2016 to 2024, and the Street Art Rillieux festival, near Lyon, also counts him among its artists.

Veks Van Hillik draws in pencil and charcoal, and paints in acrylic. His chiaroscuro gives form to dark creatures in which fauna and flora become chimeras. He names the Flemish painting of Bosch, Van Eyck and Brueghel, Goya, Gustave Doré, Caravaggio, Ingres, Dalí and the writings of André Breton. Popular culture, comics and tattooing complete these references and link his work to lowbrow, also known as pop surrealism.