5. Nadia Turner – Tanglewood Studio

Digital | Illustration | Sculpture | Painting

Nadia is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator working across both traditional and digital media. She also creates sculptural doll creatures using polymer clay alongside found and recycled objects. 

Her practice is deeply rooted in magic, myth, and folklore, drawing inspiration from the unseen and often forgotten strange worlds embedded within ancient beliefs and stories.

Nadia owns and operates Tanglewood Gallery and Shoppe in Sassafras, where her working studio is nestled within the space. Here, she creates prints and products for the store alongside her painting and digital work. She works across a wide range of projects simultaneously, from painting on wood and sculpting with polymer clay to jewellery making and illustration commissions, which are most often created digitally.

“I create art because I am driven to share story. I also want to ignite the spark of imagination within the viewer for them to create the storytelling narrative for themselves. My intent is to open gateways to childlike belief in magic and wonder that so many of us have lost, to guide the viewer through that gap in the hedge, or over that wall between the known and unknown, between reality and fairytale."

— Nadia Turner