SHEA DAY

Shea Day is a self-taught painter living in central Arizona. She works with oil paint creating expressive representative pieces, and occasionally making abstracts in acrylics.  Shea began her professional artist work in her 20s – forty years ago, making photo-realistic portraits in colored pencils and charcoal for friends and colleagues. This became very boring for her – copying photos which were already art seemed redundant and Shea soon tired of it.  When she dove into abstracts, painting became a joy. Shea was inspired by going in blind and not knowing where the many processes would take her for the finished pieces. But, her love of faces and places and townscapes kept calling, until she embarked on using oil paints and began to experiment with those. True love. Shea is now becoming known for her paintings of buildings in rural landscapes, portraits, and Jerome, AZ townscapes, usually nocturnes. She feels there’s no end to the beauty to be captured in her special place in the high desert of Arizona.

She is represented by Raku Gallery in Jerome, Arizona.