Niko van der Klugt (Amsterdam, 1954) is a Autonomous artist. He has worked as an independent lighting designer since 1989 and did theater and modern dance productions – either in theatre’s or on location, on both national and international assignments -, events, museums, exhibitions and architectural projects. His works include projects for the Railway Museum Utrecht and National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, which has been reopened in October 2011. As he was fascinated by light over the years, he found new ways to express himself in a different art form; converting spatial light into photographic images.

Niko van der Klugt focuses within his photography on the making of 'Digital (Light) Paintings'. These works consist of an amalgamation of his own photographs, carefully build up layer by layer into a unique universe. Photography that goes further than photography only.

Digital Imaging
I work as a painter.  Abstrac and Figurative. What I don't need is a studio (but I do have) with diffuse Northern light, no tubes of paint. The computer is my canvas, the mouse my brush.
I paint as a painter, with the required software as a binding agent.