Artworks by Kimberley Day

Kimberley lives on the Isle of Purbeck on the south coast of England, Dorset. Her abstracted landscape paintings are a response to places that hold some sense of mystery or something intangible. Using composition as storytelling, her feelings expressed through colour, she looks to focus in on something undefined in an attempt to hold on to a sense of place.

​Using colour and mark making initially as an investigation, then searching through the process to unlock something unexpected, allowing the act of painting to take her on a journey. Kim will often start her work en Pléin Air then move back to the studio to allow that transition from recorded observation to creating works that are felt as much as they are seen.

Growing up Kim's artistic influences were wide ranging - from films by Hal Ashby, Ghibli animations, Illustration by Beatrix Potter, Arthur Rackham, Cicely Mary Barker and the work of Vallatton, Bonnard, Vuillard, Kollwitz, Van Gogh, Sargent, Keifer, Deibenkorn, Munch and Klimt's Landscapes to Edo Period Japanese woodblock prints. All seem to have assembled like an internal rolodex of imagery forever rotating.

Kim has worked on a number of commissions in the UK and the United States and now has a painting in the National Gallery of Ireland in perpetuity. Alongside this she works with interiors companies supplying framed prints and paintings.

Materials: Working on Saunders Waterford 638gsm papers or stretched Linen with Oils, Acrylics, compressed charcoals and pastels pencils and pens, combining each medium to add variation to her mark making and colour quality.

She has a BA Hons Fine Arts painting degree and a Masters from the NFTS | Royal College of Art in Design for Film and has worked in the International Film Industry for over 25 years. She took part in Landscape Artist of the Year 2026, winning the final commission to have her painting of Croagh Patrick hang in the National Gallery of Ireland.