Ennie was born in the 1940's as one of seven children. Today, she is a mother of eight. She grew up within a caring family, strongly rooted in the traditions and beliefs of the Kalahari San. She never attended school but her traditional knowledge about edible and medicinal plants is well known in the community.

She is a skilled craft producer and although she now concentrates on her art, she still enjoys making belts, necklaces and bracelets from glass or ostrich eggshell beads.
Her enjoyment of the creative process conveys itself through her work, which is often light hearted and fun.

The things she remembers most vividly from her childhood are the trips with her grandparents into the veld to collect food and to hunt. Like most of the other Kalahari Bushmen artists, she also has a need to convey some of these memories in her art in order to keep them alive.

Different from all the other women at the art project, Ennie prefers to depict birds and animals above the plants and pictures of traditional lifestyle.
She passionately loves the Kalahari veld with all its creatures and is very perceptive towards the different plants, birds and smaller insects. Therefore, creatures like wild dogs, with their red tongues and spotted bodies, the owls and insects appear in her work.

She enjoys her art almost like a small child where the creative process becomes more important than the end product. In this way a bird can easily be transformed into a plant and vice versa. It could be this childlike absorption in her work that results in a looser paint technique, different from the precision of the other Kalahari Bushmen artists.

Ennie also sees her art as an extension of her culture. Through her art people will always remember her culture and the world she loved. She likes to feel that people will recognise her as a person through her art.