"I feel like I just took a photograph of my mind and put it onto my canvas."
Chance encounters of line, colour and form on canvas.
Heather Day works across paper and canvas using a wealth of materials including acrylic, oil pastel, chalk and pencil. Her work is incredibly textural, layering intricate brushwork and pencil drawing over broad washes of water. The compositions incorporate negative space, with raw, unprimed canvas often visible below. Predominantly influenced by nature, Day takes trips by herself to explore forests and rivers where she creates small studies from observation which, back in the studio, form the basis of larger canvases. Day is also inspired by modern and contemporary painting, from the expressio...
Bio
Heather Day was born in 1989 in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and now lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Collaborations
She has collaborated with tech companies including Dropbox, Facebook and Google, working on projects that help to bridge the gap between art and technology.
Collections
Work featured in esteemed private and public collections including those of Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fidelity Investments, Chicago Philharmonic, The Ritz-Carlton, Seoul Hospital, JCrew, AirBnB, Dropbox, Warner Brothers, Facebook, Youtube and Google.
