Samantha began as an artist painting in oils and acrylics. She studied Art at Ramapo College in Mahwah, NJ, Ridgewood School of Art in Ridgewood, NJ and The School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Award-winning artist Samantha McNally has been painting for 20 years. Samantha is a member of The California Watercolor Association and her paintings are hanging in the CWA Gallery at Blackhawk Plaza in Danville, California and Gallery Concord in Concord, CA. Many of her original watercolor paintings have been purchased at art shows on the East Coast and the West Coast.
In the spring of 1999, at the Mount St. Mary Art Show in Newburgh, New York she was awarded the Grumbacher gold medal and special award ribbon for her painting, "Dogwood". In 2001 Samantha was awarded Honorable Mention for “Flowers” and in 2004, third place for “Two Roses” and Honorable Mention for "Sunlit Rose" in the CWA Blackhawk Gallery. Her watercolor paintings are hanging in private collections from Maine to Seattle and from Sacramento to Virginia. .
