
Katy L. Day is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bristol, UK, working across digital painting, traditional media, and handmade crafts. Her practice explores the intersection of surrealism, mythology, horror, and natural science—often drawing from personal experiences, classical techniques, and intuitive processes.
Rooted in automatic drawing and refined through the old masters' method of layered brushwork, Katy's work spans several evolving projects. One series delves into dark surrealism and body horror, merging art history and the subconscious to question the role of fear and otherness in visual culture. Another documents the life cycles of invertebrates through digital paintings, blending Art Nouveau elegance with scientific observation and storytelling. A third strand of her practice embraces seasonal palettes and intuitive mark-making, creating vibrant dreamscapes inspired by nature, neurodivergence, and creative joy.
Though each project stands on its own, they all share a fascination with transformation—whether physical, psychological, or symbolic. Katy studied BA Drawing at Falmouth University and works from her studio at D-Unit Studios in Bristol, where she continues to develop imaginative, emotionally layered worlds that invite deeper reflection on the overlooked, the uncanny, and the inner self.



