From our founder, Canadian Artist Matt Vegh:
Proud to unveil the newest addition to my Canada Wildlife series: The Canadian Timberwolf.
This large-format original measures 66 × 66 cm and is executed in oil and metallic acrylics on crosshatch fibre canvas, fused to a birch panel and embedded in sand over a secondary birch panel. The result is a richly tactile work with real physical depth: you can feel the ridges of thick impasto, the grit of the sand, and the way the metallic paints shift under light.
At its heart sits a powerful Northern Timberwolf in a glowing hand-carved medallion, standing proud against a dynamic, swirling abstract landscape of deep Canadian blues, lush greens, warm golds and silvers.
Canadian Timberwolf will make its public debut this November at the Wei Han Art Gallery in Chengdu, during my dual-artist exhibition. It joins 14 other brand-new originals I’m preparing: a total of 15 fresh works exploring my Canada Wildlife, Chinese Zodiac, and Tenochtitlans series.
I’ve poured everything into this body of work from all of the previous iterations of my art trajectory. The textures, the metallic shifts, the way these pieces feel alive in person… it’s been an incredible studio journey.
If you’re able to join us in November, I’d love for you to experience these in the gallery. Nothing beats seeing the scale, the impasto, and the way the light plays across the surfaces live.
The Quiet Architecture of Permanence https://t.co/zrQrHqVbRS Every generation believes it is inventing the future. The measure of a creator is not how loudly they are seen, but whether their work continues to speak long after they have stepped away.
@TheApiens Everything we have built on our own. No funds from VC and given back multiple x any small mint funds we took in from holders. That is how Web3 was and is supposed to work.
On our 1st primary mint UBots, we took in about $25k and have sent out over $250k in artwork.
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Big Announcement from the Confluence Universe
We’ve officially crossed 130,000 NFTs across our primary collections (excluding ancillary items like bags, upgrade cards, activation and reward badges).
This makes the Confluence one of the largest, most accessible, and affordable ecosystems in all of Web3, while delivering unmatched real-world utility.
What truly sets us apart is our best-in-class phygital exchange program. In addition to the many roll-up and exchange programs we held for individual collections in the past (we have shipped hundreds of physical paintings valued at over $500k USD already to our holders as rewards), our latest "OG RWA BURN Program" allows holders to burn OG NFTs from the Universe and redeem original physical artworks from my studio.
Milestone Update: We’ve completed 300 burns in the first week of this program for 10 dedicated holders who are receiving physical pieces from my Wildlife Discovery, Zodiac, and Tenochtitlan series.
Real art, already shipping.
Exciting Roadmap Ahead:
Along with our industry-leading Agentic AI Digital Legacy platform for publishing and GEOsphere discoverability (Eternal Gardens), our fully Agentic marketplace is in active development jam-packed with some of the all-time best-selling NFT art in Web3.
It will focus exclusively on the Confluence Universe and our phygital exchange program, drawing from our massive IP holdings of over 40 brands and trademarks including 11 Collections in the All-Time Top 150 in Gaming NFT's on Opensea. We will also tap back into our already built 500+ game and game mode Web3 Gaming Universe, but with an AI-driven focus for web-based gaming.
On the heels of the marketplace launch will come the Art Strategy Token: powering the entire phygital exchange ecosystem.
Now is the best time to be sweeping cheap OG NFTs from the Confluence and leveling up to become a core holder. The floor is still incredibly accessible, and the upside for dedicated collectors has never been stronger.
Thank you to every builder and collector in the Universe. The future is phygital, agentic, and built for real value.
Here are some of the physical works already shipped to holders from our Burn program, with many more to come. You can view our founder Canadian Artist Matt Vegh's gallery of works here for more information about the artwork:
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@TheApiens That was a great show! I might have to do more of my Postage Stamp series, given I have a collection of over 400,000 postage stamps from all over the world dating back to the 1800's.
@TheApiens@MattVegh Innovative piece! Love those Mine portals. Looks and feels like a legacy piece as well! Great job preserving your art trajectory and the provenance of the work using Eternal Gardens Agentic AI Curation platform!
Copper Mine River (2015)
30 x 30 oil on ink wash paper fused to hand-stretched canvas with a real Canadian Postage Stamp Embedded on its surface
This is one of the very first of our founder @MattVegh's experimental "Postage Stamp" inspired pieces from his earliest days of painting in 2015 and the piece was featured at his debut group international exhibition at the WM Art Gallery in the Atrium at the prestigious Tae Koo Li in Chengdu, along with several others in the series.
Not many of them survived the embedding process, so they are rare pieces, but this stamp remains vivid in color and indeed matches the title of the painting, Copper Mine River, a 1971 Canadian 6 Cent Postage Stamp.
It resides in Matt Vegh's Main Collection in his Chengdu Studio Gallery as a cornerstone historical and foundational piece of his art trajectory.
View it here along with other works from his massive sales history of 1,080 original oil paintings, plus 103 placements and artist exchanges, in the past 10 years, making him, by both velocity and hard count, one of the most prolific significant oil painters of all time.
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The "Tenochtitlan 8" is a painting I received as a reward for being a Double Dragon Package minter of Nathaniel Vegh's incredible pixel art Tenochtitlans NFT's on ApeChain.
Our founder @MattVegh legit one of, if not "the", most successful phygital artists in the world.
What other founder/real world artist in Web3 has shipped hundreds of original works of art to holders?
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From our founder, Canadian Artist Matt Vegh:
Happy Canada Day!
Today feels extra special as I get to share a major career milestone.
Over the past week, I’ve sold another 10 original works, predominantly from my Canada Wildlife Discovery series. Seven of these pieces are now heading to the Shanghai West Bund, and three were acquired through my new Web3 OG Burn program in The Confluence Universe, where collectors have now burned 150 NFTs to redeem physical artworks.
These latest sales bring my total to 1,080 original works sold since early 2017. When combined with 103 placements and artist exchanges, I am proud to announce that I have surpassed Cornelius Krieghoff and now rank as the #2 most productive solo grind artist in significant oil paintings in Canadian history.
Only one name remains ahead: the legendary Jean Paul Riopelle. At the current pace, I expect to close that gap in the next 5 to 6 years, perhaps sooner with my 1886: A New Legacy Reigns project coming up in 2027.
It is incredibly satisfying to know that every single piece so far created from the Canada Wildlife Discovery Series has sold immediately upon completion: The Moose, The Red-Tailed Hawk, The Eagle, The Blue Jay, The Largemouth Bass, The Mallard, and The White-Tailed Deer so far. I’ve just finished a special new piece for Canada Day, (the Penny Beaver: 1st pic attached) and it is available now. You too can own part of my first foray into Canadian-themed artworks, which combine several iterations from my award-winning Four Seasons, Floral Abstract, and Mosaic Collections.
Here’s to Canadian art, relentless creation, and chasing down legends.
Onward.
The “Zodiac Tiger” is a 60 × 60 cm piece that’s the third large-format work our founder Matt Vegh has completed for his upcoming exhibition at the Wei Han Art Gallery in Chengdu (Xinjin) China.
This November he will unveil 15 new paintings featuring fresh work from his Zodiac Legacy, Canadian Wildlife, Four Seasons, Tenochtitlans, and Mosaic series. It’s shaping up to be a rich exploration of cultural fusion, nature, and artistic legacy.
“Zodiac Tiger” comes out of the Chinese Zodiac Legacy series which was first released at Matt Vegh's Spring Festival Exhibition at the 5 Star Mu Mian Hotel overlooking MixC Plaza in Chengdu and with official support of the city's calling card Jinsha Museum.
At its heart is a hand-carved gold medallion of the Chinese Zodiac Tiger. In Chinese tradition the Tiger symbolizes courage, strength, leadership, and protection: a noble and powerful spirit. Matt Vegh is known for making his heavily textured paintings appear like relics or treasures, something precious like a talisman, something almost ancient and revered.
Surrounding it is his heavy impasto backgrounds from the Four Seasons series. Its built up thick, tactile layers of paint create a dense, vibrant tropical world: lush foliage, energetic vines, and bursts of color that feel alive and wild.
The contrast between the smooth, sculpted gold medallion and the raw, sculptural jungle texture creates a beautiful tension: civilization and wilderness, tradition and contemporary expression, precious artifact and living nature, honoring the deep symbolism of the Zodiac.
From our founder, Canadian Artist Matt Vegh:
Just one part of my Phygital Art journey, but still one of my faves.
3 x 3 cm physical piece - oil and metallic acrylics on canvas - plus 1024 x 1024 pixel custom digitized version in face-on and angled versions for use in the project's crystalization process - plus Metaverse version
The collectors of my Web3 Phygital Mosaic NFT tiles were able to "crystalize" an original Mosaic Tile physical piece of art by utilizing the unique "crystalization" process available on the NFT drop page, which was custom-developed for this project. Each 3x3 cm tile sold for between $350-480 USD.
The Hooded Figure in Blue is a prime example and one of the most sci-fi-ish "mined" pieces in the collection. It took me nearly a year to complete the 1,250 pieces that were on offer and in the end, 272 Mosaic Phygital works of art were sold during the mint, which were crystalized into 14 larger physical works of art and shipped to holders. The project marked my very early and innovative adoption of RWA in the Web3 space.
It is important to note that due to the intense process involved in creating these small works, even though they are small, they actually took more time to create than many of my medium and larger-sized works.
I still create miniature abstract paintings and have thousands stored in my studio gallery waiting for the day when I exhibit them. Although my production and sales counts are already in the thousands, I do not typically mention these ones. I will when the time is right for the reveal.
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Exciting Physical Innovation: The OG NFT Burn for RWA Art by @MattVegh in The Confluence 🔥🔥
Holders in The Confluence ecosystem can now burn their original (OG) NFTs to redeem stunning physical real-world artwork (RWA) created by Canadian artist and founder Matt Vegh. This program lets dedicated collectors trade select OG NFTs from the ConfluenceUniverse for hand-painted originals It's a seamless bridge from digital to tangible art - with hundreds of physical paintings already shipped to holders. Recent burns (e.g., 30-NFT batches) are already converting into shipped masterpieces.
Why it matters: True physical utility , reducing digital supply while delivering museum-quality physical art backed by one of Web3’s most successful art projects. A builder’s move that rewards long-term holders with real value. Check the active roll-ups on OpenSea and connect with Matt’s AI persona in Eternal Gardens for details!