[1] Nanning studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy from 1974 to 1979 under Jan van der Vaart, department of Ceramic Design.

[2] In 1978, Nanning completed a second internship with Harry op de Laak in the department of Monumental Design at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

During a study trip to Cappadocia, Turkey, Nanning gained inspiration for works in fired stoneware clay.

In Japan - and particularly in the dozens of small, stylized Zen gardens - she drew inspiration for bowls with parallel grooves and gnarled objects made of petrified wood with ceramic components in the 'Terra' series.

For a social housing complex on the 'Ceramplein' in Amsterdam, she designed a wall with incorporated seating element made of glazed bricks for the building's entrance portal.

Three years later, commissioned by the municipality of Amsterdam, Nanning made 'Draaiingen II' for the campus of the Vrije Universiteit's main faculty.

Commissioned by the Board of Directors of ABN AMRO Bank, Nanning created the flowers 'Seres', inspired by lush leaves that seem to sway in the wind.

As the basis for the various burned-in colorful 'float' windows, Nanning made small fusing glass sheets, which she then processed by computer.

[8] Since 2001, Nanning has been carrying out her glass designs at glassmaking studio Ajeto in Lindava, Czech Republic.

In this workshop, Nanning can work with multiple layers of color and, under her watchful eye, lobed shapes are blown, cut, polished and sandblasted.

She uses the verre églomisé technique[18][19] and collaborates with gilder Václav Novák, conservator Vlastivědné muzeum a galerie Česká Lípa, Czech Republic, for this purpose.

She also made cabinets with decorative glass panels in intensive collaboration with the Amsterdam furniture maker Godfried Brands.

The spirit of the Bauhaus, where intensive interaction between artists of different disciplines in their studios and craftsmen in their workshops served the final product, continued in this collaboration.

[17] The installation 'Eternal Spring' consists of glass-blown and hand-formed snow-white branches protruding from wall, table and floor objects, from knots of pollarded willows or from corals.

[3] In 2020, in close collaboration with Czech grinder Aleš Zvěřina, Nanning launched the Chimaera series, for which she uses alexandrite and uranium glass.

Nanning translates the reinterpretation of the Byzantine mosaics by gilding open spaces between the glass canes with 23.5 carats of gold leaf, so that its forms now display an unprecedented richness.