Tori Day

I’m a painter, originally from Bristol, UK. My formal academic training includes studying Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London and at the University of Brighton, where I gained an MA in 2016.

I paint portraits of ‘overlooked’ objects: humble, everyday things that have a past unknown to me, as I’ve collected them from flea markets, car boot sales and antiques shops. I use dramatic chiaroscuro lighting to transform unglamorous bric-a-brac into precious artefacts, and celebrate the generations of unseen hands through which they have passed.

My influences include Chardin, Cotán, Morandi, Zurbarán, and the Dutch still life painters of the seventeenth century.

My work is in private collections throughout the UK and internationally.

2016 MA Fine Art, University of Brighton
2008 Foundation Diploma Fine Art, Central Saint Martins
1997 BA (2001 MA) Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge

2025
Ambience – Creative Space, Whitstable
(Forthcoming)

2024
Royal Watercolour Society Open 2024 – Bankside Gallery, London
(Winner of the Seawhite Art Materials Prize)

2023
Society of Women Artists 162nd Exhibition – Mall Galleries, London
Wells Art Contemporary 2023 – Wells Cathedral, Somerset
RWA Annual Open Exhibition 170 – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Spring – 35 North Gallery, Brighton
Mix Tape II, Mix Tape V – Cultivate Gallery, London
The Lido Open 2023 – The Lido Stores, Margate

2022
Nicholas Bowlby, Fine Art Dealer – Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park
life STILL – Green Hill Arts, Moretonhampstead

2020
Liz May – A Personal Perspective – APT Gallery, London

2021
Nicholas Bowlby, Fine Art Dealer – Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park

2019
Autumn – 35 North Gallery, Brighton

2018
There Must be a Song that Doesn't Remind Me of You – 35 North Gallery
Winter Show – Cameron Contemporary Gallery, Hove

2017
Sluice_2017 Art Fair – Sluice Gallery, London
All Square – Cameron Contemporary Gallery, Hove
Creekside Open II – APT Gallery, London (selected by Alison Wilding)
Creekside Open I – APT Gallery, London (selected by Jordan Baseman)
Painting [Now] – Studio One Gallery, London


2016
Paper Cuts – Transition Gall...