Internationally published multidisciplinary contemporary artist.
Founder + Creative Director of The Courrier nonprofit international mail art project.
Currently represented by JAG Enterprises
+ Manager - Joe A. Gomez III
@jag.enterprises for bookings and serious inquiries
& by Hansford and Sons Emerging Artists Platform
London, United Kingdom
+ @artist.kday on Instagram
+ Manager - Joe A. Gomez III
@jag.enterprises for bookings and serious inquiries
& by Hansford and Sons Emerging Artists Platform
London, United Kingdom
+ @artist.kday on Instagram
The above photographs of artist + model + actress K. Day were captured by Illusionbreak Photography, Louis Reed and Winterborn Photography as well as a few being self portraiture.
Kathleen Day is an internationally published multidisciplinary contemporary artist, author and the mother of a special needs child, ten-year-old autistic artist Aiden Gamez ( @i.am.aiden.g on Instagram). Art has been a part of her daily life since childhood. She began her professional freelance art career directly after graduating high school in 2000. Having lived in and traveled to various places throughout the world, San Antonio, Texas is now home-base.
Miss Day is known for her extensive modeling career and began acting in 2018, while currently her art contributions and installations are her main focus. She's now been published in many art magazines and has been (and continues to be) featured in many international platforms and galleries for her body of work, the most recent of which have been in London, UK + Shanghai, China + the Frontone province of Italy + Stuttgart, Germany.
With several children's book series of her own in the works, she is also working on illustrations for children's books authored by others. Having been published in The Library of Congress as early as age 14 for her poetry, the bulk of her archival written body of work can now be viewed on her website.
Kat is the primary founder and creative director of The Courrier nonprofit international mail art project. See http://www.thecourrier.weebly.com .
Miss Day is known for her extensive modeling career and began acting in 2018, while currently her art contributions and installations are her main focus. She's now been published in many art magazines and has been (and continues to be) featured in many international platforms and galleries for her body of work, the most recent of which have been in London, UK + Shanghai, China + the Frontone province of Italy + Stuttgart, Germany.
With several children's book series of her own in the works, she is also working on illustrations for children's books authored by others. Having been published in The Library of Congress as early as age 14 for her poetry, the bulk of her archival written body of work can now be viewed on her website.
Kat is the primary founder and creative director of The Courrier nonprofit international mail art project. See http://www.thecourrier.weebly.com .
Just a few of my most notable quotes...
"Show me where grows the wildest parts of you. It's there I will plant my message."
~ K. Day, 2016
"And just like that, she decided to make each scar count, every shortcoming an unplanned miracle, every broken seam a window... And in an instant she was changed forever."
~K. Day, 2017
"When your whole world is upside down, just learn to walk on your hands.
At least your feet are in the clouds.
After all, isn't that as good as flying?"
~K. Day, 2017
"My life is the sort of adventure that, if I wrote a book about it, no one would ever believe it. And that is just the way I like it."
~K. Day, 2015
"May the ripples of my good deeds be such that those who know my name will see me dancing on the edge of their thoughts, even long after my body is gone."
~K. Day, 2015
"I don't consider myself 'adventurous'...I am an adventure."
~K. Day, 2015
"He who leaves himself behind wears a different sort of crown."
~K. Day, 2017
"Artists tend to dig our own graves with our tongues...
we passionately lack the ability to hold them when we see truth."
~K. Day, 2014
"I open my mouth and the universe falls out."
~K. Day, 2014
"People underestimate the POWER of transparency, the triumph of exposure, the honor in openness.
And that's okay; I can show them."
~K. Day, 2015
"We birth our ideas, nurture and then send them out into the world.
Very much so are our works our children, we who are the artists and the thinkers and the scientists...
there is an innate understanding that once we release them, they no longer belong to us.
We have to be willing to let them go. And if we prepared them well, surely what comes back to us will sound like praises and feels not so dissimilar from the way a parent feels, swollen with pride for their children."
~K. Day, 2015
"The greatest story ever told is us. It's all of us. Never stop telling it."
~K. Day, 2014
"My heroes don't wear capes; it would just get in the way of their wings."
~Kat Day, 2013
"Growing up, I was the little girl with unicorns on my bed and skeletons in my closet."
~K. Day, 2014
"I was 19 and I already knew who I was."
~K. Day, 2011
"Art's voice hasn't gotten stronger...but I think more people are listening. And that's the perfect time to show them a mirror."
~K. Day, 2015
"Don't lean against mirrors. You might fall in.
Always avoid cracks in the ground. Don't linger in doorways or walk under ladders.
And never wear crosses unless you're sure a vampire is stalking you."
~K. Day, 2015
{satirical excerpt from a work in progress}
"Imagine for a moment instead that you kiss the frog because you are the prince. Nobility is a constant procession of actions. Love is an action. Kissing the frog doesn't transform the frog...it transforms YOU."
~K. Day, 2015
"I'd sooner chase a thousand adventures with you than admit to being an adult for one hour on a good day.
You slay the dragons - I'll do the housework.
It's a good trade."
~K. Day, 2012
"If we wear our rain boots when we wade through our dreams, how will we ever forget we have feet? How will we remember we can fly? Caution is over-rated."
~K. Day, 2015
"Sometimes you can see yourself falling a split second before it all comes crashing down around your ankles...and sometimes, you don't want to stop falling."
~K. Day, 1999
"The world is so laughably damaged. I mean it's getting comedic how cruel and rapey and shitty and judgey human beings are everywhere. America though. Oh America, you special special little creature. You are the kid at the party demanding all the presents and attention and it's not even your party...and the kids you're hijacking are too naive to understand what you're doing."
~K. Day, 2015
"The woman is a ferocious beast.
She shines so bright it hurts to look too close.
Yet her bones are like glass, her heart light as air.
Her words are like roots that meander through the neglected places of the mind and her tongue is only sharp when their pourage is too cold."
~K. Day, 2015
"We'll ultimately discover that we are little more than figments of our own imaginations."
~K. Day, 2015
"When we have all forgotten how to be human, we should ask the animals. They have always been best at reminding us who we really are."
~K. Day
"Maybe we should wear our hearts on strings so we don't get our boots wet... No? It doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense to tiptoe around love either.
Real love is ugly beautiful messy.
We have to learn to appreciate the mess."
~K. Day, 2015
"For all that is a part of me, for all of which I am comprised, I am grateful and hope to honor that through my gentleness toward myself and the world around me."
~K. Day, 2015
"I'm not afraid to die over the truth. I'm afraid to live in a lie."
~K. Day, 2013
"And they took from him his golden crown which shined so bright it taunted the darkness and shadowy things. They covered it with dung and sticks and placed it back upon his head saying, 'See what has been done here...we have saved you, the darkness will forget you.' But then so did all the world. Woe to the day that evil determined no bird shall keep for himself his own gilded wings."
~K. Day, 2015
"Remember, there is always light in dark places. So long as people draw breath, they will search for their truest selves, which is love."
~K. Day, 2015
"I have learned that some fairy tales are real.
I've watched papa slay the darkest dragons,
mama soothe the most untamable nightmares,
and my brother build cities with his hands.
Just wait and see what I have in store for this world.
Don't blink!
You'll miss the best parts."
~K. Day, 2013
"Never stop shining, even through times of tears and bitter words.
For it is often when we are our most vulnerable that we are also at our most beautiful.
And what an honor for all of those who are allowed to witness you rise, again and again.
The breath of love propel your life always forward, the heart of a mother and a father beat ever steady in your chest, and may your memory long surpass your body through the mouths of those who knew you."
~ K. Day, 2015
"I will confound them. I will rattle their gilded cages and shake their very foundations. I will make myself so present the world will never be the same again. And I will do this because you are all worth it."
~K. Day, 2015
"There is no book that comes close to explaining my life."
~K. Day, 2014
"Everything is spinning out of control and everyone is staring to notice. The "great awakening" is more of a "great shaking awake" of the sleeping masses."
~K. Day, 2015
"Expectation... I learned it can steal one's joy. This applies just as much to life as to tending the land. We understand that the seed is designed to grow and what elements should facilitate for that growth. But nature is beautifully imperfect and it's taught me that each seed has it's own internal clock, which differs even from its brother's. The plants are not so unlike us. Expectations kill everything. We must observe and participate in a constant state of childlike wonderment if we wish to know the true potential of nature."
~K. Day, 2016
"And then she told them all they had to do all along was believe in themselves. It was the only way."
~K. Day, 2016
~ K. Day, 2016
"And just like that, she decided to make each scar count, every shortcoming an unplanned miracle, every broken seam a window... And in an instant she was changed forever."
~K. Day, 2017
"When your whole world is upside down, just learn to walk on your hands.
At least your feet are in the clouds.
After all, isn't that as good as flying?"
~K. Day, 2017
"My life is the sort of adventure that, if I wrote a book about it, no one would ever believe it. And that is just the way I like it."
~K. Day, 2015
"May the ripples of my good deeds be such that those who know my name will see me dancing on the edge of their thoughts, even long after my body is gone."
~K. Day, 2015
"I don't consider myself 'adventurous'...I am an adventure."
~K. Day, 2015
"He who leaves himself behind wears a different sort of crown."
~K. Day, 2017
"Artists tend to dig our own graves with our tongues...
we passionately lack the ability to hold them when we see truth."
~K. Day, 2014
"I open my mouth and the universe falls out."
~K. Day, 2014
"People underestimate the POWER of transparency, the triumph of exposure, the honor in openness.
And that's okay; I can show them."
~K. Day, 2015
"We birth our ideas, nurture and then send them out into the world.
Very much so are our works our children, we who are the artists and the thinkers and the scientists...
there is an innate understanding that once we release them, they no longer belong to us.
We have to be willing to let them go. And if we prepared them well, surely what comes back to us will sound like praises and feels not so dissimilar from the way a parent feels, swollen with pride for their children."
~K. Day, 2015
"The greatest story ever told is us. It's all of us. Never stop telling it."
~K. Day, 2014
"My heroes don't wear capes; it would just get in the way of their wings."
~Kat Day, 2013
"Growing up, I was the little girl with unicorns on my bed and skeletons in my closet."
~K. Day, 2014
"I was 19 and I already knew who I was."
~K. Day, 2011
"Art's voice hasn't gotten stronger...but I think more people are listening. And that's the perfect time to show them a mirror."
~K. Day, 2015
"Don't lean against mirrors. You might fall in.
Always avoid cracks in the ground. Don't linger in doorways or walk under ladders.
And never wear crosses unless you're sure a vampire is stalking you."
~K. Day, 2015
{satirical excerpt from a work in progress}
"Imagine for a moment instead that you kiss the frog because you are the prince. Nobility is a constant procession of actions. Love is an action. Kissing the frog doesn't transform the frog...it transforms YOU."
~K. Day, 2015
"I'd sooner chase a thousand adventures with you than admit to being an adult for one hour on a good day.
You slay the dragons - I'll do the housework.
It's a good trade."
~K. Day, 2012
"If we wear our rain boots when we wade through our dreams, how will we ever forget we have feet? How will we remember we can fly? Caution is over-rated."
~K. Day, 2015
"Sometimes you can see yourself falling a split second before it all comes crashing down around your ankles...and sometimes, you don't want to stop falling."
~K. Day, 1999
"The world is so laughably damaged. I mean it's getting comedic how cruel and rapey and shitty and judgey human beings are everywhere. America though. Oh America, you special special little creature. You are the kid at the party demanding all the presents and attention and it's not even your party...and the kids you're hijacking are too naive to understand what you're doing."
~K. Day, 2015
"The woman is a ferocious beast.
She shines so bright it hurts to look too close.
Yet her bones are like glass, her heart light as air.
Her words are like roots that meander through the neglected places of the mind and her tongue is only sharp when their pourage is too cold."
~K. Day, 2015
"We'll ultimately discover that we are little more than figments of our own imaginations."
~K. Day, 2015
"When we have all forgotten how to be human, we should ask the animals. They have always been best at reminding us who we really are."
~K. Day
"Maybe we should wear our hearts on strings so we don't get our boots wet... No? It doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense to tiptoe around love either.
Real love is ugly beautiful messy.
We have to learn to appreciate the mess."
~K. Day, 2015
"For all that is a part of me, for all of which I am comprised, I am grateful and hope to honor that through my gentleness toward myself and the world around me."
~K. Day, 2015
"I'm not afraid to die over the truth. I'm afraid to live in a lie."
~K. Day, 2013
"And they took from him his golden crown which shined so bright it taunted the darkness and shadowy things. They covered it with dung and sticks and placed it back upon his head saying, 'See what has been done here...we have saved you, the darkness will forget you.' But then so did all the world. Woe to the day that evil determined no bird shall keep for himself his own gilded wings."
~K. Day, 2015
"Remember, there is always light in dark places. So long as people draw breath, they will search for their truest selves, which is love."
~K. Day, 2015
"I have learned that some fairy tales are real.
I've watched papa slay the darkest dragons,
mama soothe the most untamable nightmares,
and my brother build cities with his hands.
Just wait and see what I have in store for this world.
Don't blink!
You'll miss the best parts."
~K. Day, 2013
"Never stop shining, even through times of tears and bitter words.
For it is often when we are our most vulnerable that we are also at our most beautiful.
And what an honor for all of those who are allowed to witness you rise, again and again.
The breath of love propel your life always forward, the heart of a mother and a father beat ever steady in your chest, and may your memory long surpass your body through the mouths of those who knew you."
~ K. Day, 2015
"I will confound them. I will rattle their gilded cages and shake their very foundations. I will make myself so present the world will never be the same again. And I will do this because you are all worth it."
~K. Day, 2015
"There is no book that comes close to explaining my life."
~K. Day, 2014
"Everything is spinning out of control and everyone is staring to notice. The "great awakening" is more of a "great shaking awake" of the sleeping masses."
~K. Day, 2015
"Expectation... I learned it can steal one's joy. This applies just as much to life as to tending the land. We understand that the seed is designed to grow and what elements should facilitate for that growth. But nature is beautifully imperfect and it's taught me that each seed has it's own internal clock, which differs even from its brother's. The plants are not so unlike us. Expectations kill everything. We must observe and participate in a constant state of childlike wonderment if we wish to know the true potential of nature."
~K. Day, 2016
"And then she told them all they had to do all along was believe in themselves. It was the only way."
~K. Day, 2016
All artworks, written work and photography ©K. Day - unless otherwise stated.
