Sabrina Adewumi – from the engineering lab to delving in colours
May 17, 2026
Sabrina Adewumi – from the engineering lab to delving in colours
For over 20 years, Jamaica-born Sabrina Adewumi chased engineering, technology, and interior- design project deadlines. Now, she is an abstract artist in her Southern California studio, finding vivid expression in colour, canvas, and the memory of home.
The first painting Sabrina Adewumi ever framed was a birthday present for her mother. She was a final-year chemical and process engineering student at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus in Trinidad, when the idea came. Rather than buying, she would make a gift for her mom. She walked into a local art store, purchased a few tubes of acrylic paint and got to work. Decades later, that canvas still hangs on a wall in her family’s home in Jamaica.
The first painting Sabrina Adewumi ever framed was a birthday present for her mother. She was a final-year chemical and process engineering student at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus in Trinidad, when the idea came. Rather than buying, she would make a gift for her mom. She walked into a local art store, purchased a few tubes of acrylic paint and got to work. Decades later, that canvas still hangs on a wall in her family’s home in Jamaica.
