Shanna Lindinger · ink artist · Yzerfontein, South Africa.
I draw in pen and ink. Some days I sit down with a plan, some days I don't — either way, the work tends to have its own ideas. The hand starts, marks accumulate, and at some point the drawing finds itself. I'm not making it so much as paying attention to it. Each mark is small and final. The white around them weighs as much as the marks. I work this way because ink doesn't let me take anything back — and that's why I trust it.
I'm Shanna. I live and work in Yzerfontein on the South African west coast, between the veld and the sea, mostly wherever there's room — at a dining table for now, with a studio in the new house coming once we've built it.
I'm largely self-taught. The work has been finding its way through me for a while now — dense, monochrome, sometimes botanical, sometimes more like a map of something I can't quite name. I showed with Site:Brooklyn Gallery in New York and was selected for the Biafarin International Awards in 2025. Mapping Cloudy Terrain is the piece I keep returning to.
Outside the studio, I started writing again. A weekly newsletter called Finding Wilder — small notes on detours, divine accidents, and the gentle art of making a life that feels truly yours. If the work on these walls speaks to you, that probably will too.
Recognition
2025–26 — Site:Brooklyn Gallery, In Black and White, New York
2025 — Biafarin 5th Annual International Awards, selected exhibitor
2025 — Listed on Artsy
Commissions
I'm taking on a small number of private commissions each year. Write to me at hi@shannalindinger.com if something has come up that feels like the right fit.