Virginia Day
Virginia Day trained at St Martin’s School of Art in London during the fifties – still rare for a woman at the time. She studied drawing, turning to sculpture later in life while living in America under the tutelage of Joseph McDonnell in his New York atelier.
Virginia lived and worked in South Africa during the sixties and, later in Majorca, where she still has a home and studio. She also trained at Studio Sem, Pietrasanta, Italy.
Discovering sculpture 21 years ago was an epiphany. Since then she has thrown herself vigorously at her ‘new’ medium. Her first bronze was accepted by the Royal Academy for the Summer Exhibition. “Sculpting is drawing in 3D,” she says. “I think a sculptor has to be able to draw, more so than a painter.”
Her preference lies in direct carving in wood and stone. A critic noted: “Her work has a controlled classicism and its seeming simplicity embodies feminine qualities of mystery, vulnerability and reserved sensuality.”
Selected exhibitions
White Space Art, Totnes
Gallery 9, Birmingham
Montague, Art 54, SoHo, New York
Ann Norton Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Martha Lincoln Gallery, Vero Beach, Florida
Bruton Street Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Virginia Day
£695.00
