Nekyta Kyara
Some people discover art. Nekyta was born inside it.
At three and a half years old, while other children were learning to hold a pencil, Nekyta was already making birthday cards for the people she loved — not scribbles, but compositions. Colour choices. Layouts. Little rectangles of joy folded with care and handed over with the kind of pride that only a child who knows she has made something real can feel. Those cards were her first canvases, and the act of giving them away was her first moment of sharing something she had made.
That same year, she also stepped onto a rugby pitch for the first time. Age three. Most children are still finding their balance; Nekyta was already learning to run, to fall, to get back up, and to trust the people beside her. Rugby gave her something art alone could not — a body that understood resilience, a mind that understood teamwork, and a spirit that understood what it means to fight for something bigger than yourself. She would carry those lessons from the field to the easel for the rest of her life.
The First Victories
Lycée Ambroise Brugière — Voeux 2023
Bearing the seal of the République Française. Her art, chosen to speak for an institution.
The world outside her family noticed early. At Collège Perrières, Nekyta entered a Christmas card competition — and won. Her artwork was chosen to grace the front of the official school Christmas card, shared with the entire community. It was a small victory, but it carried a powerful message: what she created had the ability to represent something larger than herself.
Then came the moment that changed everything. At Lycée Ambroise Brugière in Clermont-Ferrand, her artwork was selected to feature on the school's official 2023 New Year card — a card bearing the seal of the République Française, sent on behalf of the entire student body and staff. Created as part of the 2ndes option arts plastiques programme, this was no longer a school prize. It was an accreditation. Her art had been chosen to speak for an institution.
Academically, she matched that momentum. She passed her Brevet with Compliment, and later graduated from Terminale with a mention Assez Bien — with special distinction in both Art and Sport. Two disciplines, one character: disciplined and expressive, grounded and visionary. She is now pursuing a BTS MCO degree, building her future with the same determination she brings to every canvas.
Every Peak Tells a Story
Palette Knife Mountains — Acrylic on Canvas
Mountain Sunset Blaze
Nekyta's family moved every four years — new cities, new schools, new beginnings. Each time, she had to rebuild: new friends, new routines, new landscapes outside her window. For most children, this kind of upheaval is destabilising. For Nekyta, it became a source of creative fuel.
In every new city, she painted the mountains she could see. Not as postcards, but as portraits — each peak a character with its own mood, its own light, its own story. The mountains became her constants. They were the thing that did not move when everything else did. And in painting them, she discovered something profound: that every mountain she climbed — literally or figuratively — was a story of victory.
Her art teacher at the Lycée recognised it immediately — calling her a born artist with a rare and special gift. Her mountainscapes carry a vision of strength that draws people instinctively. She does not merely paint what she sees; she paints what she feels when she stands before something vast and knows she belongs to it.
And she possesses a natural ability to mentor and inspire others — guiding them to see the world with the same depth of feeling she brings to every canvas. Teaching, for Nekyta, is another form of giving — the same impulse that drove her to make those first birthday cards, now expressed on a grander scale.
Nocturne Collection
Aurora Lanterns
Luminous Studies
Mountain Reverie
The Rugby Player Who Paints
There is a reason Nekyta's paintings feel powerful. The same girl who mixes pigments on a palette has spent fifteen years tackling opponents on the rugby field. She began at three years old — an age when most children are still learning to catch a ball — and rose through the ranks to the U18s ASM Rugby Club girls' team, competing at regional level in Clermont-Ferrand.
The values of the game — resilience, courage, collective strength, the willingness to be bruised and still stand up — are woven into the very fabric of who she is. They echo unmistakably in the bold, mountain-strong compositions she creates. Her brushstrokes carry the same energy as a sprint down the wing; her colour choices have the same decisiveness as a tackle made without hesitation.
Rugby taught her that beauty and strength are not opposites — they are the same thing, expressed differently. A mountain is beautiful because it is strong. A painting is powerful because it is beautiful. Nekyta lives in that intersection, and it is what makes her work unmistakable.
Art Beyond the Canvas
Nekyta's paintings are not meant to stay in a studio. They are made to live — on walls, in homes, in the spaces where people gather, dream, and find peace.
Wall Mural Installation
Mountain Reverie — Luxury Interior
Wall Mural Installation
Golden Canopy — Modern Living
Wall Art Installation
Waterfall Sanctuary — Contemporary Space
Gallery Exhibition
NK Studio Gallery
From wall murals that transform luxury living rooms to gallery exhibitions that tell the story of an entire artistic identity, Nekyta's vision extends far beyond the traditional canvas. She sees her art living in the world — on walls, on products, in the hands of collectors. And this is only the beginning.
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The Expanding Vision
Nekyta's ambition does not stop at paint on canvas. She is already exploring new territories: pottery and ceramics, where the mountains she paints can become three-dimensional forms you can hold in your hands. Mixed materials — textiles, metals, natural elements — that bring texture and depth to her landscapes in ways a flat surface never could.
She envisions a world where her art lives on products — greeting cards, stationery, home décor, wearable art — each piece carrying the same emotional weight as a gallery original. The NK brand is being built not just as a signature, but as a promise: that everything bearing those two letters was made with intention, with love, and with the strength of mountains behind it.
From birthday cards at three and a half to wall murals in luxury interiors — the journey has been extraordinary. But Nekyta will tell you it is only the beginning. The mountains ahead are taller, the colours bolder, and the vision clearer than ever.
In Her Own Words
"I paint mountains because they hold everything I believe in — strength, permanence, and the quiet power of something that has endured. When I put a brush to canvas, I am not just painting a landscape. I am painting a feeling: the feeling of standing before something vast and knowing you belong to it."
Art, for me, has always been a form of giving. It began with birthday cards made with love for the people closest to me, and that spirit has never left my work. Every piece I create carries the same intention — to offer something genuine, something that moves the person who receives it. My greatest joy is not only creating, but teaching others to see the world through this lens: to find the mountain in themselves, and to draw it with courage.
My Testimony
I was born an artist, but I was also born into a climb. Long before anyone knew my name, God knew my story. He saw every mountain that stood before me...
Watch Nekyta Paint
Five worlds. Five stories. Each mountain, a chapter in her life.
Milestones & Achievements
Began playing rugby — discipline, courage, and collective strength woven into her character from the very start
Created her first birthday cards for family and friends — her earliest canvases of love and connection
Won the Collège Perrières Christmas Card Competition — her artwork chosen as the official school Christmas card
Passed the Brevet with Compliment — academic excellence recognised alongside artistic achievement
Artwork featured on the official Lycée Ambroise Brugière 2023 New Year card — bearing the République Française seal
Validated by her art teacher as a born artist with a rare and special gift — recognised for her distinctive mountainscapes
Graduated Terminale with mention Assez Bien — special subjects in Art and Sport
Integrated into the U18s ASM Rugby Club girls' team — competing at regional level
Pursuing BTS MCO — 1st Year, deepening her artistic practice and exploring new creative directions