Samaya is a young passionate artist based in Brooklyn, New York.

She knew she loved art at an early age. Samaya showed great enthusiasm and focus by being able to sit and create for hours at a time.  She would become immersed in her projects and always felt at home with her art.  When she was 7 years old and in 2nd grade at PS 217, her work was chosen to be entered into a city-wide contest hosted by the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.  

As Samaya and her work have matured, she tends to gravitate toward portraits of people and animals.  While she has an uncanny ability to copy works of the masters by sight, she loves to create her own art which is expressive with color and sometimes poignant.  At age 8, Samaya was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor, which had caused her to almost lose her eyesight among other things.  After successful surgeries and treatment, she has regained her sight and her self proclaimed, “Art Spirit”.  One year later, her work was admitted into the Raymond Wood Foundation Art Contest in 2021.  The art contest was to celebrate survivors of this rare disease.  Samaya won both the Artist Choice Award as well as the Talent Category dictated by professional artists in the field.  In 2022, she won for her category again. She was able to put the money she won in her college fund.  

She attends Mark Twain Middle School for the Gifted and Talented, with a Visual Arts focus. Samaya considers herself a “working artist” even though she is only in Middle School. She creates commissions, and sells her original works (only the ones she can part with) and prints. She loves to share her work.

Now 11 years old, Samaya’s wish is to pursue a creative life in Visual Arts.  While her path has not been easy, Art has helped to light her way.  May her work bring some hope and color into your day. She is grateful to Creatively Wild and her primary teacher Sally Novak for teaching her and instilling in her confidence and love of the craft.