Nikhil Johnson draws, animates and teaches — and believes a child should be allowed to look properly before being told what to draw.
Nix Fine Arts holds his artwork, experiments, illustrations, commissions, animation work and the educational art projects he makes with children. The same person does all of it.
Biography
Nikhil Johnson is a visual artist, animator, filmmaker and art educator from Vettucaud, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He founded Nix Fine Arts as a place for his artwork, experiments, illustrations, commissions, animation work and educational art projects.
He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram, and a qualification in Visual Effects and Animation from Mahatma Gandhi University.
From 2020 he worked in professional 2D animation on productions including Little Singham, Golmaal, Keymon Ache, Pakdam Pakdai and Motu Patlu. In 2023 he moved into art education while keeping his own practice.
His subjects include biblical narratives, the sea, emotions, love, nature and portraiture.
Where the work has been shown
Group shows, open studios and the educational projects he has been asked to make with schools and state bodies.
Exhibitions
- Monsoon Art FestKerala
- Serene Greens of VagamonVagamon
- VettamGroup exhibition
- Visual VortexGroup exhibition
- KCS Panikar Art GallerySolo and group shows
Projects
Higher-secondary Art Education textbook
Chapters contributed with SCERT Kerala.
Plus One English Literature and Communicative English
Artwork for the course materials.
ICT-supported art resources
Built for Classes 5 to 10 with the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala.
Gothrayanam
Made with SCERT Kerala and an initiative associated with NCERT.
Short films with children
About child-centred experiences and social concerns — using cinema to promote empathy and to give young people their voice.
How he teaches
Classes and camps for children in Thiruvananthapuram, plus online sessions for families elsewhere.
“Creativity grows through observation, imagination, experimentation, and practice.”
He connects traditional drawing methods — observation, proportion, line, colour from life — with contemporary digital tools, so children find their own confidence and their own visual language instead of copying somebody else's. Work is finished, not abandoned: a child leaves a class with something they made themselves.
He also makes short films with children about the things they actually face, using cinema to promote empathy and to give young people's voices somewhere to be heard.
Want to work with the studio?
Commissions, prints, class seats, or a question about the lesson library — write and Nikhil will reply personally.