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"When life becomes redundant or mundane, what do you do? Some of us drown out the world with music, others disappear on an adventure by reading books. As for me, I create my own worlds to escape into. Life, in of itself, is my inspiration. I love taking it and making magic out of it.”- TwistedFae

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Frances Deciga is an emerging Mexican American artist who goes by the alias TwistedFae. She specializes in blending the natural world with fantasy and myth to create surreal spaces. Deeply inspired by her cultural and Indigenous roots, her pieces often weave in symbolic elements drawn from ancestral stories, sacred landscapes, and inherited memory. She pushes color to its limits to enhance the focal point of her art, which is often the female figure. Frances works traditionally with inks, oils, acrylics, watercolors, and more, as well as digitally to bring her visions to life. Her style is a mix of impressionism and semi-realism, shaped by the comics, video games, manga, and anime she grew up with. Each painting is crafted to draw the viewer into her magical worlds, offering a brief respite from the mundane repetition of everyday life.Frances started drawing and painting when she was a child and would often get absorbed into her sketchbook for hours at a time. In 2008, she was gifted her first laptop and Wacom tablet, to which she went on to learn how to paint digitally and refined her style. However, she would often return to her sketchbook and the mediums she used when she was younger, such as sumi ink, acrylic, graphite and colored pencils, charcoal, watercolor, and pastels.During her time at Arizona State University, Frances has fallen in love with using oil paints and intends to pursue using them in her work well into the future. She is currently attending ASU in order to receive her Master's in Public Administration. She is currently working on a new collection of paintings that revolve around escaping reality and immersing one's self in an alternate world.

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I’ve been drawing and painting ever since I can remember. At first, it was something to pass the time, but now it’s something I do with more passion. My work is based on mixing the natural world with fantasy and myth to create different worlds. I love the idea of being able to pull someone into a magical world through my art and allow them to escape the mundane of everyday repetition and routine.
I take most of my inspiration from nature, with its beautiful colors and organic silhouettes, and sometimes even human built architecture, as well as my Mexican heritage and culture. The work I create is semi-realistic with a dash of manga and anime influence. I really enjoy pushing color to its limits to enhance the main subject of my work by using different types of mediums ranging from inks, pastels, watercolors, gouache, acrylics, oils, and more.

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Curriculum Vitae

Born in 1990, Phoenix, Arizona

EDUCATION

2024 - 2026 Master of Public Administration Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions2022 - 2024 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting and Drawing) Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts2017 - 2021 Associate in Business South Mountain Community College

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Xico Inc, ROOTS | RAÍCES, Phoenix, Arizona2023 Gallery 100, Revealing Reflections, Tempe, Arizona2022 Tempe Center, The Alien Within, Tempe, Arizona2005 Bourgade Catholic High School, Fine Arts Festival, Phoenix, Arizona2004 Bourgade Catholic High School, Fine Arts Festival, Phoenix, Arizona

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Freelance Illustrator + Mangaka
Twistedfae.com
2008 - Present

PUBLICATIONS

2020 Blog Role Play, Enderwoods, April

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