Onyro (Anthony Kyriazis) • Artist Spotlight

What got you in to Crypto art?

I saw Brendan Dawes post on Linkedin about him minting some of his work and selling out immediately so I had a look and tadaaa!

Where do you find your inspiration?

Deep inside? Life, nature, physics, things I don’t understand.

What do you think of traditional artwork?

I have never studied art, so I cannot have a informed opinion about it other than knowing if I like something that I see or not.

Do you think your art is fulfilling a purpose?

For myself definitely, which is why I do it, its like I am exploring myself and finding bits and bringing them to the surface. I’m opening up as I discover myself and sharing it with the wild… its scary and risky but the only way I know. I keep digging and exploring.

How did you start out as an artist?

Am I an artist? I have always categorised myself as a designer, and I will always say that’s my profession. I have always worked on making 3d digital abstract pieces because when applying to university I didn’t get into the 3d animation course at bournemouth university that I wanted. I only got to the interview and was the only kid outside the UK to get the interview. Instead, I got into Demontfort in Leicester doing Multimedia Design, at the time it was only the 2nd year both courses were running, everything was so new! So I have always had a love for 3d, especially for softimage and the SGI machines they ran on. Luckily. Demontfort had an MA in animation with some SGI O2’s and octanes, and I managed to sneak into their labs to play with Softimage. I used XSI for my very first digital abstracts which got picked up by Digital Vision and Getty. I got to work with some awesome artists back then. But I cannot complain my career in design for web and now service design across all platforms has served me well with a career starting in London, to NY and for the past 16 years here in Greece.

Who or what inspires your work?

I’ve always had a love for organic stuff and curves, fluids, flows, particles, bubbles, translucency, aberration, refraction, networks and forces, nothing solid or sharp edged, things in nature or what I believe nature/science is like on a nano level or under a macro lens. I’ve always tended towards the abstract stuff because my skillset hasn’t allowed me to make anything realistic looking yet. That’s something I want to change and am working towards.

Which other artist(s) do you admire?

From back in the day,Tim Borgmann, gmunk, Jens Karlsson, James Widegren. Erik Natzke, Nando Costa to name a few…. but having gotten into cryptoart and Houdini I’ve found so many great talents, one of my current favs is definitely James Fox, Simon Holmedal, @StuzOr. Chris Bjerre, Fernando Magalhaes, Robert Sundelin and Mark Francher to name a few.

Final question, what’s next for you as an artist?

Continued exploration and discovery of myself and of my craft