About Samantha Allen Fine Art
Meet Samantha Allen
Samantha received her B.S. in Fine Art from Harding University with an emphasis in painting. She raised six children, many of those years in south-east Asia. She is also an entrepreneur and has combined her love of painting with business. She owned her own Kidzart franchise and also formed her own business, Creative Express. Samantha has written her own curriculum used in expressive art workshops and classes. She currently receives students weekly at the home studio.
Samantha lives in Columbia, Tennessee, where she is a full-time caregiver for her husband with ALS. She is also currently an M.F.A. candidate at SCAD.
Samantha hosted her first solo art show Endurance at Cottonwood Center for the Arts in Colorado Springs in 2022. She also collaborated with @theopticalalchemist in Fraternization in 2024 at the Platte Collection Art Gallery. Her work can be found in national and international private collections. She is a published author and her book Walk with Me can be found on Amazon or www.allenfamilyministries.org.
Where I'm Going
Samantha is currently creating work for her thesis show Michtam that opens October 12, 2025 in their home gallery Peoria in Columbia, Tennessee.
The messy puddles of watercolor, suggestions of shapes and scenes, fragile pencil lines, speak to my weakness in this season and my inability to control any part of my life. Acrylic and pen and ink look so attractive, but they seem just too bold and full of courage for my present reality. Too defined.
It would belittle the art participant to tell you what to find in my art. I am very aware that all of us are in difficult times.
We are all in process. I respect your journey, and believe that process is more important than the goals we strive to reach.
May my current art that is imperfect, undefined and often unfinished, somehow define empathy, hope, joy, and beauty to you.
It is my hope that my art gives sight and parable to our journeys here with Jesus. Great art should communicate without necessity of words or explanation. Though we often enjoy hearing the story that surrounds a work of art, art should respect the viewer’s ability to seek out his or her own understanding of it. Casual observers of art often go away unmoved and unchanged.
