Having undergone a formal art training at Bath Academy, where he obtained a BA, he began to work in a shared studio where he was able to experiment with etching, lithography and serigraphy, as well as to paint in acrylic and oil.

His vision of life gained steady acceptance in European art galleries and by the end of the eighties he was able to have a studio of his own where he now paints his original works. His etching plates and serigraphic stencils he makes at the studio of his printers

Nixon sees himself as part of the symbolist tradition, in that he considers the prime concern of art is not to depict but to suggest thoughts and feelings by symbols. Although in his work the precision of the drawing and the realism of the very flesh of his subjects might belie this, he believes the artist must synthesize this impression of what he feels and expresses.

Once he has painted the central figures, for which he uses models in his studio, he paints from memory to evoke a feeling or mood, drawing on the accumulation of symbols which have come from the fund of his, and it could be said from the fund of the collective memory of all mankind over the last centuries.

The key role in his work is played by women. They lounge, meditate and play in a seemingly private world, cocooned from the outside. For Nixon, the beauty of the female form and of the female sentiment is one of the great transcending experiences of life.

Viewing his works one is swept into a world of primal emotion without knowing what parts of ones emotions are being stirred

As with all great art we look in wonderment and feel enriched.

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