Nancy Day
Nancy Day was born and raised in the prairie city of Edmonton, where winters are often long and harsh. Spring’s promise of new life and summers fulfillment has always held a fascination and joy for her. She began painting the subjects that expressed the phenomenon of growth and nature’s capacity for rejuvenation. These scenes have become her point of connection and depar-ture; Day does not wish to describe the scene accurately but to use the underlying geometric structure of the elements to form images only loosely connected to the subject that attracted her in the first place.
Day has enhanced a natural talent and an enduring interest with extensive formal training; she has attended a variety of art classes given by the Edmonton Art Gallery (now Art Gallery of Al-berta) and the Department of Extension at the University of Alberta. In 1985, she attended the inaugural year at the Lester B. Pearson International Summer School of the Arts (now the Metchosin International Summer School for the Arts, Metchosin, B.C.). Her formal training has culminated in a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta (1987). Her work is held in corporate and public collections including Alberta Government Telephones, Amoco, Steiner Cor-porate Art, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the Royal Bank of Canada, Hitachi Canada, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She exhibits throughout Canada on a regular basis, and her work is represented by Gerry Thomas Gallery (Calgary), Lando Gallery (Edmonton), and the Art Rental and Sales Program of the Associates of the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver). She lives in Parksville, B.C. and works full-time as an artist.
Day has enhanced a natural talent and an enduring interest with extensive formal training; she has attended a variety of art classes given by the Edmonton Art Gallery (now Art Gallery of Al-berta) and the Department of Extension at the University of Alberta. In 1985, she attended the inaugural year at the Lester B. Pearson International Summer School of the Arts (now the Metchosin International Summer School for the Arts, Metchosin, B.C.). Her formal training has culminated in a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta (1987). Her work is held in corporate and public collections including Alberta Government Telephones, Amoco, Steiner Cor-porate Art, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the Royal Bank of Canada, Hitachi Canada, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She exhibits throughout Canada on a regular basis, and her work is represented by Gerry Thomas Gallery (Calgary), Lando Gallery (Edmonton), and the Art Rental and Sales Program of the Associates of the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver). She lives in Parksville, B.C. and works full-time as an artist.