Mystic City

"Mystic City" is the NFT version of one of Andrew Neil Olscher's original, acrylic paintings of the same name. The work has been digitally enhanced by the artist for the best presentation in this digital format.

British-born, Canadian, Andrew Neil Olscher has been a professional digital and fine artist for almost 30 years. His bold, thickly textured, acrylic paintings, photographs and digital prints have been purchased and shown by private and corporate collectors and galleries locally and internationally.

Intrigued by the emerging digital art technologies of the 1990s, Andrew began combining high-resolution, digital scans of his traditional oil pastels, acrylic paintings and photographs. With the wizardry of digital painting, photo compositing, and computer manipulation, Andrew produced several series of high-quality, original digital art. He became one of the first Canadian artists to have his large-format digital work printed with archival quality inks on the high-resolution, ColorSpan printer at Toronto Image Works. In June 2000 a selection of Andrew’s prints were published in Silicon Valley North’s “PIXEL THIS” feature – a “showcase of the best and most talented digital artists in the Greater Toronto Area”. Now, once again on the technological cutting edge, Andrew will be offering an increasing variety of these original digital works, later works, as well as digital adaptions of his trademark, highly textured, acrylic paintings as NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) at OpenSea.io.

Andrew's trademark, colorful acrylic paintings, digital art and photographs have been presented in Toronto as a part of ArtCanadiana.com’s “Group of Eleven”, including noted Canadian artists Ken Danby and Berge Missakian and one of Asia’s finest watercolour artists, Stephen Yau. Andrew’s work was also exhibited at the “Village of Hope” in association with the United Nation’s conference on small island development in Barbados and at the Toronto International Art Festival 2001.

Andrew has participated in a variety of group shows which have included such noted artists as Norval Morrisseau, Fred Hagan, Brent Townsend, Tim Packer, Michael Dumas, Toni Onley and Canadian Art Partners. A large selection of his paintings can be viewed at Gallery On The Lake, Buckhorn, Ontario where he was one of the “hottest selling” artists of the 2006 season and has been showing his artwork for over a decade. Queen’s University also holds a sizable collection of Andrew’s work which is featured in various locations, including The Faculties of Law, Education, Arts and Science, School of Business, Department of Advancement and School of Music. His stock photography, digital and fine artwork have been featured on magazine covers, as illustrative materials for periodical content and for countless other commercial applications, many with a worldwide distribution.

“Many people like to ‘pigeon-hole’ artists and in some cases think that commercially oriented artwork is somehow a lesser form of art. I have a unique, and for some, an instantly recognizable painterly, fine art style that has been enthusiastically embraced by many viewers and collectors, but I put no less effort or value in creating something for a commercial venue. Attracting an audience and striving for excellence is what any art form should be about” says Andrew.

Keywords - flowers, floral, garden, landscape, lily, lilies, iris, irises, acrylic, canvas, sunflower, summer, spring, poppy, poppies, grass, wheat.

Andrew Neil Olscher has been a professional digital and fine artist for almost 30 years. His bold, thickly textured, acrylic paintings, photographs and digital prints have been purchased and shown by private and corporate collectors and galleries locally and internationally. Intrigued by the emerging digital art technologies of the 1990s, Andrew began combining high-resolution, digital scans of his traditional oil pastels, acrylic paintings and photographs. With the wizardry of digital painting, photo compositing, and computer manipulation, Andrew produced several series of high-quality, original digital art. He became one of the first Canadian artists to have his large-format digital work printed with archival quality inks on the high-resolution, ColorSpan printer at Toronto Image Works. In June 2000 a selection of Andrew's prints were published in Silicon Valley North's "PIXEL THIS" feature - a "showcase of the best and most talented digital artists in the Greater Toronto Area"