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About Me

Artist Biog
Nikki Pinder is a freelance Illustrator, Artist and Designer based in Cheshire. 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. Birds, 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.
Always experimenting with materials, her style is characterized by paper and fabric collage and the incorporation of inks, graphite, acrylics and found images. The handmade theme which runs throughout her work was recently developed into a series of unique badges now supplied to various bookstores and shops. Nikki graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 2005 with a BA Honours in Illustration and Graphic Design. Her first solo exhibition took place in November 2006 and she is planning to collaborate with various artists, photographers and musicians in the near future.
Freelance Illustrator, Artist & Graphic Designer
Art Director/Editor/Publisher of NightOwl Magazine
Email: [email protected]
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LINKS

Nikki Pinder Illustration

Nikki Pinder Website

Nikki Pinder Flickr

NightOwl Magazine

www.nikkipinder.co.uk

Illustrations
Creative Writing & Gainful Employment | Transition Tradition Magazine

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Rogue Taxidermy | Creature Magazine

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Creature Mag Love

Amelia's Magazine

Creature Magazine

Brain Bulletin

Libertine Magazine

Transition Tradition Magazine

Transition Tradition Myspace

Sound Of Drowning

Sound Of Drowning Myspace

Musicians

Catherine Anne Davies

Alessi Music

Colt

Agent Ribbons

Vermillion Lies

Lost City Ramblers

T-shirts

Shirted Ape

Shirted Ape Myspace

My Interests

Music, drawing, painting, collage, buttons, owls, tattoo art, deguerreotypes, photography, night time, ephemera, playing guitar, marrionettes, thinking, old clocks, teapots, birds, antiques, old books, grammaphones, old frames, theatre, vasari venetian mirrors, ghost stories, typography, broken glasses, twilight, scetchbooks, pencil crayons, hats, stickers, old book shops, junk shops, genuine people, countryside, customising, making.

I'd like to meet:

Musicians, Publishers, Authors, Illustrators, Poets, Writers, Photographers, Actors, Painters, Owls, Eccentrics, Designers working in any field.

Quote:

"The reason I think your art matches so well with us is because our album is a crazy mess of themes and genres and influences and your art is so wonderfully dense and beautiful and bizzarre and silly in places and serious in others. And the images you use come from all sorts of places and eras and such." Kim Vermillion (Vermillion Lies)

All artwork displayed on this myspace profile (including the photos and blog sections) is copyright 2007 Nicola Pinder. Artwork may not be published in full, in part, or adapted without prior written consent of the artist.

Â© Nicola Pinder 2003-2007. All Rights Reserved.

Television:

Camille Rose Garcia, Richard Colman, Jim Flora, Marice Sendak, Dave McKean, Edward Gorey, Max Ernst, Gene Deitch, Cal Schenkel, Mary Blair, Tim Bisbup, Andy Riley, Jeffrey Brown, Steven Appleby, Sarah Fanelli, Terry Gilliam, Gerald Scarfe, Tim Burton, Andy Warhol, Posy Simmonds, Jason Munn, Danny Boyle, Emir Kustorica, Meryl Streep, Peter Greenaway, Colin Andrew Johnson, Philip Johnson, Chris Cunningham, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Jim Henson, Tim Burton, Rob Reiner, Joel Schumacher, Terry Gilliam, Richard Benjamin, Robert Zemeckis

Books:

Where the Wild Things Are
The Art Of Looking Sideways
Edward Lears Book of Nonsense
Wolves in the Walls
Lord of the Flies
Geen Eggs & Ham
Wrongboys History of Earth
Index-A
The Cat in the Hat
I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish
Alice in Wonderland
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Through the Looking Gass
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Another Roadside Attraction
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Still Life With Woodpecker
The Boy Who Ate Stars

Heroes:

Illustrators:
Marice Sendak, Dave McKean, Edward Gorey, Andy Riley, Jeffrey Brown, Steven Appleby, Sarah Fanelli, Terry Gilliam, Gerald Scarfe, Tim Burton, Andy Warhol, Posy Simmonds.
Directors:
Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Jim Henson, Tim Burton, Rob Reiner, Joel Schumacher, Terry Gilliam, Richard Benjamin, Robert Zemeckis.
Musicians: (in no particular order)
The Cure, The Gun Club, Team Sleep, Spinto Band, The Decemberists, Clinic, Sonic Youth, Mo-Dettes, The Dresden Dolls, The Shins, Wolfmother, Cocteau Twins, Deftones, Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens, The Warlocks, Ed Harcourt, Beirut, Killing Joe, The Postal Service, The Velvet Underground, Jeff Buckley, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Scars, Arcade Fire, Massive Attack, The Strokes, Joni Mitchel, Frank Zappa, Catherine Anne Davies, Kings of Leon, Vermillion Lies, No Doubt, Graham Coxon, Idlewild, Death from above_1979, Hot Hot Heat, The Pretenders, Tom McRae, Aqualung, Mogwai, Portishead, Belle & Sebastian, The Beatles, The White Stripes, Mazzy Star, Carol King, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, PJ Harvey, Sigur Ros, The Vines, Death Cab For Cutie, We Are Scientists, Maximo Park, Aretha Franklin, Joy Division, Magic Numbers, The Stills, Kate Bush, Queens of the Stoneage, Athlete, Radiohead, Thirteen Senses, The Duke Spirit, Dusty Springfield, Ray Charles, The Kinks, Scissor Sistors, Fleetwood Mac, James, Ryan Adams, Adam Green, Aqualung, Goldfrapp, The Sleepy Jackson, Lost City Ramblers, Nouvelle Vague, Magic Numbers, Roxette, Incubus, Etta James, Nick Drake, Moby, Carole King, Hard-Fi, The Distillers, The Dandy Warhols, Roxy Music, Sting, The Kills, Editors, Moldy Peaches, Paul Weller, Placebo, Air, Suade, Nirvana, Muse, Good Charlotte, Simon & Garfunkel, Tracy Chapman, Flaming Lips, Hundred Reasons, Sheryl Crow, The Undertones, Lost Prophets, Blondie, Z, Trail of the Dead, The Killers, Feeder, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Crowded House, Diana Ross, Cream, Elbow, Danny Elfman, Yann Tiersen, Alanis Morisette, Greenday, REM, Snow Patrol, Madonna, Alfie, Razorlight, Pixies, David Bowie, The Doors, The Eurythmics, Roxy Music, Bloc Party.

My Blog

Artwork now on Facebook

I've recently created some webpages on Facebook to help keep you up to date with what is happening in my illustrated world. If you have a Facebook page you should (fingers crossed) be able to view a l...
Posted by Nikki Pinder Illustrations on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:59:00 PST

The Butterfly Man

The Butterfly ManChristmas Card designs and illustrations for Lawn Creative.Inspiration for the artwork was taken from the poem 'The Night Before Christmas'. This was my personal interpretation of the...
Posted by Nikki Pinder Illustrations on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:45:00 PST

The Bird Man

I've just completed a new piece of artwork for Lady Lavona of BELOVED & CO..The illustration will feature within a web blog banner for Lady Lavona's Gypsy Soup For more info: www.ladylavona.etsy.com ...
Posted by Nikki Pinder Illustrations on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:58:00 PST

Curious Artwork for Vermillion Lies

Artwork title: CuriositiesA series of new illustrations for the musical band 'Vermillion Lies'.To find out more about Vermillion Lies, please click on the links below:www.myspace.com/vermillionlieswww...
Posted by Nikki Pinder Illustrations on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:50:00 PST

Textile Designs

A new series of textile designs inspired by butterfly wings, petals and fish fins.Titled: "Nice Dream"Original drawing:Developed designs with various colours and finishes:...
Posted by Nikki Pinder Illustrations on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:54:00 PST

Dream Faces

This is the first in a series of new character compositions.Title: "Dream Faces"...
Posted by Nikki Pinder Illustrations on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:02:00 PST

Exhibition Update

Exhibition update - 30/09/07:Lots of new work has been added to the walls today!!A solo exhibition of my work is currently on display in The Old Sweet Shop, Sheffield. It commenced on the 1st Septembe...
Posted by Nikki Pinder Illustrations on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:12:00 PST

Interactive ’Daydreaming’ Postcard Now Online

My online Interactive Postcard is now live and featured on www.kiwee.com for use on Myspace/Piczo/Multiply etc. You can find it on the hompage in the bottom left hand corner, or contained in the 'Post...
Posted by Nikki Pinder Illustrations on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:29:00 PST

Exhibition Newspaper Review

Sheffield based music writer and photographer David Dunn recently kindly wrote a review about my current exhibition and work which was featured in The Star Newspaper last saturday.You can contact Davi...
Posted by Nikki Pinder Illustrations on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:28:00 PST

NightOwl Magazine Issue One

NightOwl Magazine - a handmade limited edition self-published zine containing work contributed by various artists.This is the first completed section of NightOwl Magazine (Part Two), the Twilight issu...
Posted by Nikki Pinder Illustrations on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:31:00 PST