Camille Day, known as Candy to friends and family, is an artist from North Georgia, committed to capturing the people and places of Georgia and beyond. Her desire to expand her painting ability has led Camille to Europe as well as many places in the U. S. where she enjoys painting en plein air (in the open air) as well as in her new studio in Ellijay, Georgia. She is continually inspired by the varied landscapes of the natural world, its people, animals and common places where beauty is sometimes overlooked. Largely self-taught, she has been painting and drawing since childhood but has also had the benefit of studying under many great artists.  She says each session with such wonderful instructors enabled her to reach further into the well of her own abilities and translate not only what she sees as beautiful, but to make the viewer feel that same emotion. 

The home base of M. Camille Day is in the beautiful, little mountain town of Ellijay, Georgia.  She is a Signature Member of the Southern Appalachian Artist Guild, a Signature Member of the Women Painters of the Southeast and the Southeastern Pastel Society.  Other memberships include the Oil Painters of America, the Pastel Society of America, the American Impressionist Society, and she is a founding member of the Eastern League of Professional Artists.  She is a board member of the Plein Air Painters of the Southeast and the past president and gallery director of Gilmer Arts.

Camille Day has been the judge and juror of many shows including the Women Painters of the Southeast, and many plein air competitions including the 2019 Knoxville Museum of Art’s Artists on Location event. She has been honored with numerous awards both in plein air and studio work. The work of M. Camille Day has been juried into many national and international shows, and much of her work is now in private collections. She continues painting to honor her gift and to encourage others.

Her work can be viewed at www.studiocamille.com. 

Artist’s Statement, by M. Camille Day

Drawing, painting----creating----has always been a part of my life.  After years of immersion in becoming more proficient in my life’s work, I realize there is something more important than mere skill and that is the ability to express the voice of my soul.  To me, that quality stands above them all in deserving the title of “artist”.  If my work can show what spoke to me and compelled me to put voice to it through paint or pastel, then I will count myself successful.  But I will count myself truly blessed if someone looks at my work and finds something that speaks to their soul.  Now as I paint the things that inspire me, what I most want is to share the voice of my soul through my work and show you the emotion stirred there.  My hope is that it sparks a resonance of joy, pleasure, fond remembrance----something---- within your own sense of being, something you can add to your own voice and call your own.