Jinx Nolan (b. 1941), artist, is the daughter of writer Cynthia Reed and the adopted daughter of Sidney Nolan, whom Reed married in 1948. Jinx was nine when she asked Nolan if he would teach her to draw: believing that art couldn't be taught, Nolan apparently just gave her a pencil and some paper and said 'Now draw'. Despite this, her childhood travels in Central Australia with her family encouraged her love of art, and when she eventually went to art school, at age 30, Nolan told her that 'You either have it or you don’t – and you have it'. After the family's move to Europe in the early 1950s, Jinx spent several years at an English boarding school and later attended finishing schools in Paris and Lausanne. She was seventeen when they moved to the United States. She studied French and music at Bennington College, Vermont, and subsequently found work with the United Nations in New York. After moving to Boston in the early 1970s she started studying art at evening college but later went on to study full-time in printmaking and fine art. Following her mother's death in 1976, Jinx temporarily relocated to London and then returned to Australia to be with her stepfather. She returned to the USA following Nolan's death in 1992. Still based in Boston, Jinx continues to paint abstract landscapes, holding a solo exhibition in Sydney in 2017.
