About the Artist

Linda Saxon Nix is native of Mississippi who has resided in Biloxi for thirty-one years. She now calls the Gulf Coast her home. An educator by profession, she has always been interested in one phase or another of art. She received her first camera (a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye) when she was eleven, and has taken photographs ever since.
She began her interest in painting while living in Colorado for twelve years. She won a few awards and some purchase awards, plus sold numerous paintings, during her main painting years. Over the years, her interests changed to photography. Now retired from a career as a school media specialist, she enjoys having the time to spend with her photography.
Nix enjoys photographing a variety of subjects. She loves experiencing the satisfaction of creating a scene or a mood with her camera, and doesn't see a flower, a sunset, a seascape, an old building, or a landscape without wanting to photograph it.

Nix is basically self-taught in photography. She takes workshops and seminars whenever she gets the chance, and she reads and studies the four or five photography magazines she subscribes to as well as the books on photography that she collects. She has learned a great deal from her son who majored in photography and worked as a product photograher in Phoenix. No doubt her art training transferred over to photography skills in composition and subject matter.
Her eye for composition and her selection of subject matter, as well as numerous photography workshops, have given her a scope that has led her photographs to be sought after as fine art used for a number and variety of commercial purposes. Nix likes for her photographs to tell a story, or evoke feelings.

Artist's Statement

I find, after becomming immersed in photography, that it is truly a passion of mine. My focus is often flowers, and I love creating floral impressions. I specialize in magnolias because they capture the essence of the South, and they epitomize the beauty of our area. Each spring I anticipate searching for different shapes, settings, personalities and "demeanors" of magnolias during magnolia season, and I feel challenged to capturing their varying facets and poses with my lens. My magnolias have been used with magazine articles, in logos and business advertising, on brochures and flyers, book illustrations, in newspapers and national ad campaigns as well as being collected as fine art photography. They grace wedding invitations in Denmark and the US, and were featured in a commemorative booklet presented to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States from Costa Rica upon his election.

My fine art photography has gone to a new level in the past few years. I find that I enjoy photographing local scenery, old things, including buildings such as the now destroyed Tivoli Hotel, and whatever captures my fancy that tells a story or evokes emotions inside her and in the viewer.
I strive to create with the desire to capture the beauty and uniqueness of the world. It is my desire that others will enjoy the scenes and subjects that I so love to photograph.

As my photography grows and matures, I find that I wish to make statements about nature and the fragility of our natural resources, our environment, and our quality of life, which are all precarious.
In photographing nature and landscapes, I am capturing a moment in time that cannot be captured in the same way ever again. I feel that my photographs reflect my eye, my vision and my emotions. My photography is as unique as my genetics; therefore, no other photography will capture a scene the way that I do, nor can I capture a scene the way another photographer does.