Painter, designer, environmentalist, and entrepreneur. A born advocate with innate passion, curiosity, and ambition, she was an environmentalist & vegetarian by age 11 and by then, totally obsessed with the sea. Day earned a B.F.A. from Rhode Island College. She has worked for Sotheby’s as a paint restoration artist, as a painter on large-scale theatre scrims, a consultant on small business projects, and a small business owner.
Day considers herself an “artivist” and while her primary expression is through paint she is also a founding member of Vanishing Species Vanishing Art and SeaWall_Art4aPurpose both of which create temporary murals and sculptures meant to spotlight vanishing species and made from natural materials, meant to be taken back by nature or tide.
Her current studio work continues her ongoing colloquy with the sea. Exploring the idea of abstracted perception through photos taken while ascending to the surface of the water. Photographing the underside of the “skin of the sea”, then heading into the studio to paint the results. Under the sea, looking up, once familiar images become otherworldly and unrecognizable at the whim of current or wind. Too often these reflected surfaces are filled with floating plastics, man-made debris and visions of massive development surrounding these delicate ecosystems. Fractured, shattered and reconfigured: Is it an overturned life raft, contents spilling out, plastic trash floating on the surface or an idyllic beach replete with coconut palms?
A member of Silvermine Artist Guild and several other artist’s collectives. She has also worked with the United Nations and University of Peace in Costa Rica on a woman’s empowerment exchange project and received several awards for her work in the sustainable / green industries, such as the prestigious Eileen Fisher Woman Entrepreneur Grant. Her art can be found in galleries and homes in Europe, South and Central America and the U.S.
Painting in the US, Caribbean, Central America, and Europe for more than 4 decades, her work is based on sketches, journals, and photographs made during her travels. Her work can be found in galleries and private collections both here and abroad.
An Artivist, Day makes art with a purpose. “I believe that promoting the idea of “urgency” and “action” are what is needed most concerning the conservation of our oceans. Through dialog & education we can change the perception about what it would mean to lose the oceans.”
Day donates a percentage of each painting sold to The Captain Paul Watson Foundation, whose mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species.
MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS
2022 – Connecticut Women Artists (CWA)
2022 – Eco Art Space Member
2021- Current – Milford Arts Council
2019 – Current – Silvermine Guild of Artists
2016 – Current – Fairfield County Cultural Alliance
2016 – Current – Saatchi Artist
2014 – 2024 Artist Collective of Westport
2014 – 2018 – Member Westport Art Center
2012 – 2015 – ArtSpace Member, New Haven