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THE ARTIST

Hi, I'm Mekayla DAVIA Mullings

Artist. Dreamer. Caribbean at heart

I’m a Jamaican artist and the creative mind behind DAVIA, a contemporary Caribbean fine art studio.

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My work is an exploration of identity, beauty, emotion, nature, and the visual language of the Caribbean. I’m drawn to rich color, expressive figures, tropical elements, and the stories that make our surroundings feel like home.

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Through DAVIA, I create original works that invite you to slow down, look closer, and connect with something beyond the canvas.

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This is more than art to me. It’s a way of seeing, feeling, and telling stories.

Jamaican artist Mekayla Mullings, known as DAVIA, painting in her art studio.
Colorful Caribbean-inspired painting of a woman holding a coconut beneath tropical palm leaves, with an orange hibiscus flowe

Inspired by the world around me, I create pieces that hold a feeling, tell a story, and leave something behind.

~DAVIA

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My Story

Rooted in Jamaica. Growing through art.

Decorative gold botanical line art featuring a tropical leaf, used in the DAVIA website design.

I’m a Jamaican artist, and DAVIA is a reflection of my journey of discovering where creativity could take me.

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My love for art began with simple curiosity and grew into a way of exploring emotion, identity, nature, culture, and the beauty I see around me.

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My first official painting was actually an art-class assignment. We were asked to explore different art styles, and somehow, that little assignment earned me a 99%. I still believe it deserved the other 1%, though. 😂

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What started as an assignment became the beginning of something much bigger. Today, I’m continuing to explore, experiment, and create art that tells stories and invites people to feel something of their own.

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DAVIA is a continuation of that journey.

Expressive figurative painting with warm orange and yellow forms against a purple and blue background, by Jamaican artist DAV
DAVIA artist signature in muted gold.

WHAT INSPIRES ME

“What Inspires Me” graphic featuring four themes that influence Jamaican artist DAVIA’s work: nature, people, culture, and li

IN THE STUDIO

Where ideas take shape.

For me, painting is rarely about following a perfect plan. I usually begin with an idea, a feeling, or something that catches my attention, and then I let the painting evolve from there.

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I love experimenting with color, texture, movement, and different materials. Sometimes the finished piece looks exactly how I imagined it; other times, it takes me somewhere completely unexpected and those are often my favorite paintings.

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The studio is where I get to experiment, make mistakes, change my mind, and let the art become what it wants to be.

Artist’s palette with earthy acrylic paint colours and paintbrushes in the studio of Jamaican artist DAVIA.
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