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Website: www.nikkipinder.co.uk
Project: Happy Friday Illustrations
Briefly: Nikki is a long term contributor to Creaturemag, appearing many times in our online projects including the 2008 festival Edition for which she created an immense illustration for the front cover: creaturemag.com/festivaledition2008. She has more recently been involved in a regular slot on the Creature blog, click here to check out her “Happy Friday” Illustrations.
Nikki is an Illustrator, Artist, Designer and Nightowl based in Cheshire, England. At age four she attempted to learn how to fly using story books as wings, but in later years decided it’d be better to turn these abstract ideas into illustrations and artworks on canvas.
Obsessed with details, ephemera, memories, and found objects, she grew up on a visual diet of comics and trips to the local antique shop. Textures and layering are an important consideration when creating her curious and sometimes bizarre characters and landscapes. The relationship between man and machine is another obvious fascination as she often juxtaposes organic and mechanical images to form surreal and whimsical narratives. Butterflies, insects and organisms are also a common theme throughout her work as she draws much of her inspiration from nature and it’s rustic colour palette.
Click here to check out Nikki’s recent illustrations for Creaturemag.
