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Cloister

Nicholas Cloister
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Artist // Professional // Digital Art
  • Sweden
  • Deviant for 17 years
  • He / Him
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My Bio

Favourite Visual Artist
I don't know... too many.
Favourite Movies
2001, LotR, The Baby of Mâcon, Requiem for a dream. Inland Empire, to name a few...
Favourite TV Shows
A Game of Thrones, BBC Nature Shows,
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Primordial, In the Woods, Arcturus,The 3rd & the Mortal (Tears laid in earth), My dying Bride, O
Favourite Books
The Upanishads, Mud and Water, New Seeds of Contemplation, The Power of Now, The Cloud of Unknowing etc
Favourite Writers
Meister Eckehart, Rumi, Vivekananda, Teresa of Ávila, Dogen, Thomas Merton, St John of the Cross, Bassui, Eckhart Tolle etc
Favourite Games
Skyrim and... Skyrim, so far.
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC
Tools of the Trade
Silence, Wacom Intuous 3, Adobe Photoshop.
Other Interests
Writing, walking, zazen,

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Comments

Hi,



Being from Sweden where living standards are quite high I found it difficult to compete with people from eastern Europe and Asia for example. Even on good months I had a hard time arriving at a normal Swedish wage, freelancing, and my own need to express my love of fantasy through art was over. I also found it socially unsatisfying to work from home, working digitally, producing digital art for people I only had digital connections with and who paid me digital money through digital means 😊

An Elder Kind of Magic - record cover