Welcome to my new site.
Go to Galleries and have a look. Enjoy your stay!
My name is Wilfred Hildonen and I’m originally from Norway, but have lived almost half my life in other countries, mainly in Finland, Sweden and Portugal and now I live on the Åland Islands. I have been drawing all my life, since I could grab a pencil. I am mostly autodidact, although I attended a couple of art educations in the early 80’s, but I had already worked a few years as a political cartoonist for local newspapers in Norway, but it never took off, because of various circumstances. Meanwhile I tried to survive with all kinds of work, in the fishing industries, on factory floors, in warehouses, as a driver, a cook et cetera, if I wasnt out of work, living on the dole, homeless and hopeless at times.
Then, in 1991, I moved to the land of most of my ancestors - Finland. The following year my present career as an editorial and political cartoonist as well as an illustrator began and it soon took off.
Since 1998, I have been working from home, no matter where that has happened to be. A veteran digital nomad, of sorts. Since 2016 I began to draw digitally on an iPad Pro, because I had already well over 10.000 drawings on paper, as well as a couple of hundred paintings. Not very practical when moving.
I mostly work in Procreate, but also in Affinity Designer, creating vector based art.
You may contact me at wilfred dott hildonen att gmail dott com…