Fizz Pop, the pseudonym of the UK-born, Canada-based artist Christopher Rodrigues, is a digital painter whose work explores still-life and landscape traditions through both traditional and emerging digital techniques. He began digitally painting flowers in Photoshop in 2001, and later expanded his practice into animation, generative processes and AI tools.
For his Still Life series, he created digital interpretations of Dutch Golden Age oil paintings from the era of Tulip Mania, drawing a parallel between the 1637 speculative bubble in tulip bulbs and the 2020 boom in cryptocurrency and digital art. Working under a pseudonym he has described as “a gender-free anonymous handle that allowed me freedom to explore the digital space in a way that felt safe & exciting”, he also draws on science fiction, fantasy and mythology to address themes of environment, identity and spirituality.
