Los Angeles–based artist Lianne Jedeikin was born in Zimbabwe during the era of racial segregation, an experience that shaped her lifelong attention to the ways history lingers in place, in people, and in patterns that quietly repeat across generations. After studying in Cape Town, South Africa, she immigrated to the United States, where she founded Accentrix Design Studio in 1989. For many years she led a team of designers creating large-scale installations for clients nationwide—work that grounded her in the power of atmosphere, scale, and storytelling through surface.

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Lianne’s fine art practice builds on this foundation, often incorporating vintage wallpapers as both canvas and commentary. Her nearly sold-out series “In Their Memory” juxtaposed floral patterns with portraits of domestic workers and their children, echoing the complexities and reverberations of colonial paternalism. With “Goddesses and Gargoyles,” she explored the tension between fierce protectiveness and sensual power—two aspects of feminine identity she continues to investigate through large-scale oil and charcoal compositions.

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Her newest body of work, “The Elephant in the Room,” created for her upcoming exhibition at The Betsy Hotel during Art Basel, brings these threads together with renewed clarity. Painted on intentionally sourced vintage colonial-style wallpapers, each piece carries traces of another era, chosen to resonate with the subject it frames. At the center of the series stands a large African elephant emerging from a 1947 floral pattern—a witness to the stories we inherit and the ones we choose to tell. Surrounding it are portraits of figures who inspire her: Frida Kahlo, Audrey Hepburn, Muhammad Ali, Dr. Jane Goodall, a Zimbabwean boy, and Edna Kumahlo, the remarkable South African woman who cared for Lianne’s husband Alon and his brothers across four decades.

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Through this work, Lianne reflects on memory, dignity, and the unseen forces that shape personal and collective histories. Her paintings serve as an invitation into a conversation long carried by artists, caregivers, and truth-tellers—those who use their lives and creativity to illuminate the world we share.

Lianne’s artwork has been exhibited across California, including at Las Laguna Gallery in Laguna Beach, ZArt Academy in Brentwood, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, RealArt Gallery in Agoura Hills, and The Other Art Show at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Her pieces have been acquired by collectors in South Africa, Australia, Canada, France, and the United States.