An encounter with 8-year-old who does wonders with her hands

There in their living room is an array of art works beautifully displayed like an exhibition. Among them are jewelries she has made, sketches of people and beautiful paintings she had done all by herself. But that is not all she could do. Ayla Durnin is one you would describe as a beautiful multi-talented girl. […]

There in their living room is an array of art works beautifully displayed like an exhibition. Among them are jewelries she has made, sketches of people and beautiful paintings she had done all by herself. But that is not all she could do.

Ayla Durnin is one you would describe as a beautiful multi-talented girl. She does not only carry the glow on her body, she creates it in so many skills that are gradually growing with her.

What is even much more alluring about her, is the promise she holds of growing into a very fine artist and baker. From drawing, painting, jewelry making, baking, to ballet dance, she has through practice grown her skills.

Ayla is born to Mr Durnin, an English man and Mrs Asma’u Durnin, a Nigerian from Adamawa State. Her family resides in Nigeria.

Boredom had made Ayla resort to using her tablet, yet she found in that, no much fun. In an interview with Daily Trust, the eight-year-old star revealed how her journey into creativity started.

“I am usually using my tablet, and it’s not really that much fun, so I sit and think, I want to paint or bake, so I just do it.”

“I learnt how to learn these things when I was five or six, from my mum, my grandma and my aunts. I learnt by usually watching them in the kitchen, I usually just sit and watch them make it.” She added.

Ayla said she also learnt part of the skills on YouTube, a summer baking school she had attended, from her teacher in school and her creative mind.

In the course of her work, Ayla says that she encounters challenges “… especially when I am sketching, I usually get something wrong, so I keep trying and trying and trying.

“And the same thing with baking, whenever I am baking, I might get the recipe wrong, so I keep trying and trying and trying.

She added that her cousins encouraged her to keep trying and through that, she surmounted the challenges.

Ayla publicises her works on her YouTube channel called “Ayla’s Creative Hub”. When asked how she does the videos she posts on her channel, she says her brother Asaph, and her cousins, Harry and Chana, help her out.

“My two cousins Harry [Haruna] and Channa usually help me with the video. My brother helps me edit the video so it’s able to be posted on YouTube.” She added.

She says she wants to be a chef when she grows up. “I would really like to become a chef when I grow up, so I could make people happy by my delicious food.”

Ayla also has this message for kids: “They should be creative in any way they want; they should do things that nobody in the world has done and it would be absolutely great.”