Nohana Sayama

Nohana Sayama (b.2003, Osaka) is a Japanese artist based in London, a recent graduate of Camberwell College of Arts, Fine Art: Painting. During her time at Camberwell, she developed her practice in watercolour. Raised in Singapore, India and Japan, she paints to journal her past, to record her existence, to have nameless characters observe her in silence. With the unconventional use of Gansai watercolour, she attempts to express her incomplete social-cultural identity. 

She recently won the Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award and the W Gordon Smith & Mrs Jay Gordon Smith Award at the RSW 145th Annual Exhibition 2026, as well as the Watercolour award at the CASS Art Prize 2025. 

She has also exhibited widely, including at World Art Dubai, the Affordable Art Fair, the London Design Festival, Art Jakarta Papers, the Other Art Fair, Royal Scottish Academy, Mall Galleries, Leeds City Museum and more. This year, she plans to join the Turps Spring Intensive course, the Palazzo Monti residency, and start her master’s course in Painting at the Royal College of Arts.