Maya Medina

Maya Medina is a Colombian self-taught artist based in Bogotá. Her creative practice explores everyday life through expressive drawing, vibrant color and spontaneous mark-making. Working primarily on paper, she combines drawing, painting and mixed media to create intimate portraits of people, animals, flowers, objects and personal memories.

Her work is driven by observation and curiosity rather than academic rules. She is interested in capturing the character and emotion of a moment through loose lines, unexpected color combinations and layered gestures. Her visual language moves between figurative drawing and expressive abstraction, embracing imperfections and the immediacy of the handmade process.

With a professional background in creativity, communication and audiovisual production, Maya approaches drawing as both a personal practice and a way of documenting the world around her. Her works are small-format, one-of-a-kind pieces, often created as part of an ongoing visual diary.

Self-taught artist.
Independent study and continued development in drawing, painting, color and mixed media.

Emerging self-taught artist