Dark canvas with a winding gold and black river line
Original paintings · Brandon, Manitoba

RileyDay

Big canvases with heavy texture, built up layer by layer in black, gold and loud colour.

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Played the game
for years.
Now he plays
with paint.

Riley Day went from pro hockey to painting. He works the way he played: physical, all-in, no half-measures. Thick texture, pours, drips and layers, built up and worked back down until the piece hits.

Every painting is one of a kind.

Selected work

The Work

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Large black, white and gold textured abstract
Black & Gold
Close-up of white impasto with gold flecks
Texture study
Minimal black brush strokes on cream
Monochrome
Black textured canvas on an easel with a single winding line
On the easel
Flowing white and copper shapes on black
Flow
Black and gold marbled abstract
Black & Gold
Neon pour painting
Neon Pour
Grey, white and gold textured abstract
Storm
Bodies of work

Series

Black & Gold

Heavy texture, metallic gold

Neon

Pours, drips and colour

Monochrome

Black, white, and texture

Graphite

Pencil on paper
Installed

In the Wild

Large painting hung above a sofa in a living room
Painting installed above a fireplace
Detailed graphite drawing of mountain peaks and a lone pine
Graphite

Quiet
Hands

The paintings are loud. The pencil work isn't. Slow, patient drawings of mountains and faces, all shading and no shortcuts.

Commissions open

Your wall.
His hands.

Tell him the room, the size and the colours you live with. He'll build a one-off piece for that space.

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