[1] An interest in wildlife came early and she studied at the Camden School of Art, receiving her teacher's certificate in 1911.
Nixon also regularly exhibited paintings of birds and natural history subjects in Birmingham and Coventry at this time.
[2] In 1928 the Oxford University Press, OUP, commissioned the two to visit India and produce illustrations.
Nixon went on to spend 26 years in India producing illustrations, including animal and bird posters, for the railways in India,[2] the Bombay Natural History Society, horse portraits and a mural of wild duck.
The couple returned to England to live in Wilmslow, Cheshire and then Burwash, East Sussex.