JENAN MCCLAIN

my life and my work,” she says. Oftentimes, her paintings are named from the poetry she has written, as one inspires the other.

A relatively new artist to the professional scene, McClain studied art in school at the Fine Art Center in Greenville, South Carolina, but did not pursue it professionally. Rather, she followed a path that led her first to banking and then to luxury real estate in the Caribbean. It wasn’t until 2020 that she decided to finish her work in the Caribbean and focus her efforts completely on painting.

A self-described “intuitive” painter, McClain’s style is abstract impressionism, focused on subjects in nature that she views as abstractly maternal: florals, waterscapes and landscapes. Painting from her home studio in Mount Pleasant, she paints her poetry in both large and small scale and accepts commissions. Her work can be found at The Vendue and the Miller Gallery in Charleston, as well as at the Grand Bohemian in Greenville, South Carolina, and AnArte Gallery in San Antonio, Texas.