Jean Eykamp's family migrated from the United States of America in the early 1960s, and she grew up in country NSW, where her father was an innovative farmer.

After leaving school, Jean studies Dress Designing and Graphics and then went to Art School in Adelaide, learning photography and drawing. While in Adelaide, Jean became a Christian and trained as a Missionary at Bible College, Since then, Jean has travelled to various countries for short tem missionary work and early in 1998 she was in Brazil investigating the plight of street children. She has worked as a Boarding school mistress, a youth worker, a dress maker, clerical assistant in the Department of Immigration and Art Gallery director. Jean became an Australian in 1994 and completed her training as an Art Therapist in 1996.

Sources used to compile this entry: http://www.cdp.org.au/fed/candidates/eykamp/1998index.html (accessed 10 July 2005); http://www.cdp.org.au/fed/candidates/eykamp/1998index.html (accessed 4 February 2005); http://www.anata.org.au/newsletters/feb2004news.pdf. (accessed 4 February 2005).