Nick Turner is an American multidisciplinary artist born in Boston and raised in the countryside of Maine. Home-schooled until the age of fourteen, he then moved to the South of France, where he attended French high school and later completed his International Baccalaureate in Toulouse. Following his studies, Turner relocated to Paris and eventually moved to New York City to attend Parsons School of Design, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Illustration.
Turner’s work explores the profound relationship between nature and the human condition. While he works across a variety of mediums—including painting, photography, and collage—his subject matter remains deeply rooted in his personal connection to the natural world. Themes such as horses, surfing, and expansive, often desolate landscapes are recurrent throughout his work, blending with motifs from his family history to create introspective and expansive visual narratives. His art balances the intimate and the universal, reflecting both his personal journey and broader questions about humanity’s place within the environment.
Most recently, Turner has ventured into fashion, collaborating with Saint Laurent Rive Droite in Paris to create a clothing collection that fuses his colorful surf journals and written reflections into textile-based art. This step into wearable art has led him to begin designing and producing his own garments—an extension of his creative voice that merges visual storytelling with the tactile world of fashion.