Nicola Jeanette

I love to be creative, especially when I can see that it makes someone else feel a sense of happiness and delight. We are all capable of amazing creativity, and that creativity can be used to make this world a better place. Most of my work involves symbolism. Almost everything symbolizes something…

What does it mean to know? Other languages express variations of this verb. Using paint and ink, I seek to unravel mysteries about the complexities of relationships. A perception of anyone or anything shifts and expands in time. How can I visually express such complexities? Can I grasp some facet of…

In South Africa growing up, I was the American kid. In America, I was the South African kid. Always half and half, my identity was simultaneously both and neither. When I was 16, we moved to Birmingham, Alabama. No amount of international travelling could have prepared me for that drastic change; y…