Biography

ForthSanity.Ink
(Mayra Smith)

Mayra Smith creates emotionally charged, fanciful, surreal, playful illustrations and designs across various mediums inspired by Japanese pop culture, nature, science fiction and Spanish surrealist Remedios Varo. She strives to invoke strong euphoric, thrilling emotions to the viewer through vivid color and composition. She drew all her life, motived by feeling she never quite fit in with her peers, and takes influence from Tim Burton, Hayao Miyazaki, and Jenova Chen, to preserver in her artistry. As her art skills develop she continually reinvents herself to better express the beauty in the strange randomness of the world.

From 2010 to 2013, Mayra volunteered for Quest Community Health Centre’s, Rainbow Youth Niagara programming, designing posters for community events. Then, in late 2013, Mayra was featured as one of the most original fantasy artists on Deviantart.com by user “Painting-with-light,” for the imaginative design of her character, ‘Azura Soulawn’. Afterwards she attended the Toronto convention “Anime North,” selling her artwork in person for the first time at the Comic Market, May 24th to 27th, 2014.

Currently Mayra Smith has an Ontario certificate in Art and Design Fundamentals, Niagara College, 2013, an into course credit to 3D Animation, Niagara college 2015, and Advance Diploma in Creative and Visual Arts, Sheridan College, 2017.

Any inquires or commission requests can be given to her by email at ForthSanity@live.ca