About Me

real talk

It’s not about the art. It’s about the making.

Hi! I’m Zenna, an artist and passionate problem-solver deeply interested in the power of making things — and making things together.

In 2020, I left my corporate technical consulting position to partner full-time with my mother, an artist and small business owner.

As the world shut down and she could no longer teach and lecture in person, so we transitioned her business online and built an incredible creative community in the process.

Over the past four years, I’ve built my own creative practice, completed series and had the opportunity to show my work in galleries.

I’ve witnessed the power of connection, community, vulnerability and trusting the process.

I founded Both Things Creative on the idea that life is rarely black or white, but grey.

  • The more we learn, the more we realize how much we don’t know. 

  • Accepting ourselves as we are is key to a peaceful life, yet we can still strive to change and grow each day.

  • The more we try to control things in life, the more we realize how little control we actually have.

I’m convinced that finding truth in these paradoxes is the key to more joy and creating more innovative, expressive, captivating art. I hope you’ll join me.

I live in Kyle, Texas with my husband Joshua, our three daughters Zira, Rowan and Petra, dog and two cats.

View artwork and CV at zennajames.com.