Looking back on creating this artwork, I realize that I have approached it from so many angles and saw so many connections that it took...

Medieval heraldry as example for the typical visual language of European Middle Ages Since 2012 my work is about the visual language of...

Crypto punks, first major algorithmically generated PFP project Art for art sake At art school I didn't learn how to make art, instead...

Beeple, Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold at Christies for $69.3 million In the Netherlands - where I live - we make a distinction...

Traveling icon #004 Draw, erase, reshape, extend, distort, flip, paste, cut… When creating these icons, I not only think of the form from...

This work is a spectacle. Walls are moving, the floor bends, the image itself glitches and while all this happens the main figure...

We see a figure, a man. There is chaos all around him, he HIMSELF is chaos. Energy is bursting out of the figure or he absorbs the energy...

The joy I got from working on my first digital icon and from exploring the NFT space encouraged me to start working on another digital...

Dauernd Dürer refers to the great German medieval artist Albrecht Dürer. Dauernd means always because, well, we can digest his work 24/7...

Let’s do a deep dive. I already wrote two articles on icons - and I am sure I will write some more - but let’s talk about one piece: Icon...

Form, lines, colors and all that have meaning to me. They speak to me in a way that nothing else does. I am stating the obvious, I know,...

The visual language of the Middle Ages fascinate me. Clovers, diamonds, hearts and spades, but also the pattern of a chessboard or...

Installation shot of stained glass windows on plastic foils made digitally As an artist you want to bring something across to your...

I need to feel it. When a painter paints madness, I need to feel that madness. When a musician plays a breakup song, I need to feel...

No church bells this morning. Due to COVID-19 where I live the churches are closed. No need to call in the people. Luckily thick...

Sunday mornings, even on a rainy day, are special. The streets are quieter, no unexpected deliveries or visitors. It’s a day that...

Dauernd Dürer The Guild In your own words, what’s the difference between artist vs NFT artist? Do you feel there’s a difference? Niels No...

Jumping from one medium to another In 1998 I started studying graphic design in Utrecht the Netherlands. Internet was still on the rise...

Icons are painted according to strict rules and hardly evolve like other artworks do due to art movements. Icons are holy objects. That’s...

I started painting icons in 2012 using egg tempera and oil paint on panel just like they used to do in the Middle Ages... NOT. I merely...