Growing up in an artistically inclined family, Nanie Othman attributes her love of art to her father, who inculcated in her a strong sense of love for painting from a very young age. Born and bred in Kuala Lumpur, she remembers spending many school holidays in the early 1970’s visiting the National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. As a Hong Kong based flight attendant, she continued this activity of visiting art galleries while on night stops abroad.
Initially a self-taught artist, Nanie started painting seriously under the tutelage of a local Malaysian artist in 2007 where she mastered the use of oil paints.
She favours painting typical Malaysian scenes. Architectural paintings of old kampung houses, local food and Chinatown shop house scenes are her forte, but she also produces paintings of vibrant landscapes, tropical flora and also abstract paintings in acrylics.
Nanie is now exploring different mediums and has discovered collage and silk screen printing as her new passion. While the results may not be satisfying on the initial tries, she finds that the sometimes imperfect effect silk screen printing produces is exactly what she is trying to achieve
Nanie has been running oil painting classes at her home and had conducted acrylic painting sessions with much success at The Linc, Jalan Ampang in 2019 , where her multinational participants’ ages ranged from 4 to 80.