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Lindsey Ayres Day
Lindsey Ayres Day is a fine artist, teacher, and illustrator based in San Antonio, Texas. She works in a variety of media, techniques, and styles to create her highly detailed, vibrantly colored fine art portraits and illustrations, featuring storytelling, children, women, and nature. She earned her high school’s Visual Art Sterling Scholar award for academic excellence and talent while also illustrating her first children’s book, The Christmas Animals. She took time off from art to earn her elementary education degree, raise kids, and work in a school library, all of which gave her great experience to put towards her dream of creating children’s literature. After receiving an ARPA for Arts grant through the City of San Antonio, she was able to get her business off the ground and is currently writing and illustrating her own children’s books to publish and tour schools, while also working on fine art pieces and commissions for sale online, her art festival booths around San Antonio and Texas Hill Country, and other venues (including public murals in the future).
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Artist Style: Teaching Artist/Instructor: Group Instruction, Instruction for Adults, Instruction for Children, Instruction for Seniors, Instruction for Special Needs, Performer for Schools/Classrooms, Private Lessons, Workshop Presenter; Visual Art: Abstract, Dream Imagery/Ethereal, Figurative, Focus on Color/Light/Movement, Illustrative, Nature/Wildlife, Photo-Based Painting, Portraiture, Realism, Representational, Still Life
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
With my intrinsic curiosity and DIY nature, I play with my materials, techniques and styles and am always game to try something new. My focus is currently on combining realistic painted portraits with abstract acrylic poured backgrounds, embellished with vibrant neon and shimmering metallic highlights that make the painting look different depending on light source and viewing angle. Realistic portraits incorporating the personality of my subjects is a fun puzzle. I love making connections through themes with detailed abstract elements combine with storytelling and symbolism, peering into nature and interpreting poetry and old stories in personal ways to understand myself and the art of being human. My pieces range from lighthearted and whimsical to contemplative and moody with a dash of surreal. My work aims to create interesting and beautiful portraits that explore all these sides and tell stories. Seeing the world through the magical eyes of those first experiencing it keeps us young. Often surrounded by children and keeping many memories of my own childhood, I grew up loving my roles as the older sister of seven brothers, babysitter, and later elementary educator, children's book illustrator, and mother; so naturally, much of my work is for or about children. I am currently writing and illustrating children’s books, and I look forward to giving back some of the enrichment kids have given my life, while also teaching art, selling painting, and creating public murals.
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