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Nicholas Turner
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| website: www.nicholasturnerart.com |
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| I have a dark side that can easily take control of me while I work; I’m still learning to channel it into my art and not my personal life. I have had terrible nightmares all my life. These dreams have inspired a lot of the closely cropped portraits collected here. My focus on capturing faces in such intimate and overpowering close-ups led me to become fascinated by the human mind and how we think and act on a psychological level. Human feelings are a huge source of power for me, though it’s a very fine line between inspiration and depression.
The idea of the human nature and how we work on a basic level fascinates me. Human instincts and our natural desires and emotions have filled my head with questions for a long period of my life, questions that have served as the muse for this collection of work. During my depression, I met a well-known French photographer, Francois Rousseau (www.francoisrousseau.com) and began working with him on a museum exhibit in Paris that became the fine art book Atelier. Francois helped give me some purpose at a very dark time in my life. Channeling these questions into art was probably the turning point for me, as well as my work.
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Kelly
36" x 48", Oil on canvas, 2010 |
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Self-Portrait 1
36" x 48", Oil on canvas, 2010 |
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Self-Portrait 2
36" x 48", Oil on canvas, 2010 |
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