From Canvas to Code: My Journey from Oil Painting to Web3
Gus Romano Gus Romano

From Canvas to Code: My Journey from Oil Painting to Web3

In 2021, I took a bold step from the comfort of my oil paints into the uncharted waters of Web3, driven by the dream of blending traditional art with cutting-edge technology. Though my initial attempts to enter platforms like SuperRare were met with silence, the journey didn’t end there. Instead, it led me back to my canvas, where I honed my craft with renewed dedication. Now, in 2024, I’m not just an oil painter but an artist ready to bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds, embracing the future with every brushstroke.

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Letters of Gus Romano

Since July 2025, I have been writing what I call my Letters. They are not essays, nor polished reflections, but fragments of my inner life as an artist — thoughts written in the raw, as if to a friend, like Van Gogh once wrote to his brother Theo.

I began these Letters because I realized painting alone cannot hold all that I feel. Sometimes the silence of the studio needs words. In them, I write about doubt, joy, fear, inspiration, exhaustion, and the fragile balance between my work as an artist and my life outside it.

The Letters are dated, imperfect, and deliberately personal. They are not meant to be instructions or manifestos. They are simply traces — records of what it means to search for truth in painting in the 21st century.

Whether anyone reads them now is less important than the fact that they exist. One day, perhaps, they will help explain not only my art, but also the time I lived in, and the questions that guided me.