Nicomi Nix Turner
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Nicomi Nix Turner
Nicomi "Nix" Turner is a San Francisco based illustrator, recognized for her intricately detailed botanical-scapes, Esoteric symbolism, provocative renderings of The Sacred Feminine, and "Anatomical Deconstructionism". Her works are created using graphite on paper in a way that has been described as a rare talent for manipulating and "painting" with the basic medium.Turner moved from Southern Oregon to study at the California College of the Arts
California College of the Arts
California College of the Arts , founded in 1907, is known for its broad, interdisciplinary programs in art, design, architecture, and writing. It has two campuses, one in Oakland and one in San Francisco, California, USA...
but left to pursue boundless creation as well as to pursue Commercial and Character illustration. Creating earthen stark worlds, including elements of ferns, bones, flowers, fungi, moths, insects and birds, her illustrative hand has been recognized by many in the art world
Art world
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Inspiration
Turner cites anatomical studies, botanyBotany
Botany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...
, and old religious practices as her greatest influences. She often suggests that her mother, a teacher of Anatomy
Anatomy
Anatomy is a branch of biology and medicine that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy , and plant anatomy...
& Physiology
Physiology
Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
, started the visual obsession with the human form, for the most part internally. Botany is a reoccurring theme in Turner's illustrations, to which she infers a sense of post-modern regrowth amongst portrayals of the human forms depicted in her pieces.