Author Archives: Arto Dŭaras

With all the minting of the NFT tickets to win the paintings going on, I do find time to paint 🙂 Here’s a glimpse of all the Canarian colors together. The same colors you see in the logo of Tulipa Canaria. Follow on social media to see the project develop.

🌷 Presenting the logo for the project Tulipa Canaria!In one month I’ll present seven paintings for the Canary Islands – and at #ARTCAN2025 the first tulip will be revealed. The project deserves its own emblem! Seven paintings – seven islands – seven tulips.Tulipa Canaria celebrates Canarian culture through art & NFTs – giving you theContinueContinue reading “Tulipa Canaria”

Whoop-whoop! Thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as an artist for ARTCAN2025 – Spain’s pioneering Web3 art & tech event in the Canary Islands. On 1 November, the exhibition opens, bringing together some of today’s most innovative digital artists. My contribution: ‘Tulipa Canaria’ – a unique fusion of history, art, and blockchain. Stay tunedContinueContinue reading “ARTCAN2025”

Being an artist can feel a bit lonely — most of the time, it’s just you and your work. That’s why collaborations and exhibitions are such a thrill. The closer the opening date gets, the more the excitement grows. I joined Harmonic Collaborations by @Boundless8D — a collective of 18 NFT creators with wildly diverseContinueContinue reading “Harmonic Collaborations”

Sometimes I let tulips stay in the vase for a long time, usually the last tulips of the season. Fascinating how a flower once full of life (and water) shrinks, becomes fragile, but still holds on to its colors — it looks like a Vanitas in a way. Fven in decay the tulip is beautifullContinueContinue reading “Tulip Vanity”

These Rembrandt tulips — placed in front of four of my paintings during my exhibition at the Bloemendagen in Anna Paulowna — are about as close as you can get to the legendary broken tulips of the 17th century. Their real-life petals echo the wild, flamed patterns that once captivated the Dutch during the TulipContinueContinue reading “Do you see the resemblance?”

Three tulips have found their way to the rolling hills of Tuscany — not in a field, but in an art gallery in Anghiari, one of the most picturesque villages in the region. Anghiari is lively year-round, known for its packed calendar of art fairs, exhibitions, folk traditions, and — of course — excellent localContinueContinue reading “Three Dutch Tulips in Tuscany”