


Vikki Day, Bio
Vikki Day’s love for fine art began at her grandmother’s side, watching fascinated as she created still life and primative oil paintings on her farm in Northern Illinois. A talented elementary and high-school art student (born in 1960), Vikki had enough passion, talent and accolades to be accepted to art school, but unfortunately not enough funding to attend.
Instead, she used her skillful eyes and steady hands as a color matcher and furniture touch-up artist in Chicago. At the same time she freelanced in decorative painting, gold-leafing, trompe l'oeil and faux finishes.
At the age of 30, Vikki and her husband and daughter moved to Vermont and she turned her attention from “replication” to ‘innovation”. She began painting maple bowls with cold water process dyes and color pencils, creating whimsical artwork and achieving some fame as a Frog Hollow Artist at galleries in Middlebury and Burlington. She was also a featured artist at the Stratton Arts Festival in the early 1990s.
As successful as that endeavor may have been, the realities of sending her own daughter to music school required that she pivot and devote her time to administrative work (Vermont Public Radio, University of Vermont Department of Music). Vikki found other ways to express her artistic talents through her desk duties. She soon built a secondary career in graphic design, using digital techniques to create hundreds of colorful posters and logos for the Burlington Arts scene.
When the Pandemic caused the live concert scene to pause, Vikki’s graphic design business was also affected. She had long dreamed of creating oil paintings as her grandmother had taught her years before. Being largely self-taught, Vikki explored online techniques, until engaging in formal painting lessons from Essex, VT artist, Hunter Eddy in early 2024. Her work continues to evolve as she develops hers own style.
She resides in Williston with her husband Allan, and her Springer Spaniel Ella. She Face-Times less than she’d like with her daughter Emily, a professional musician in San Francisco.