About Daisy
Daisy Clayton is a British artist living and working in Oxfordshire. Drawing from her background in psychology, Daisy’s work evokes inner landscapes through atmospheric architecture, emotive weather and domestic moments. Daisy’s work explores stillness, light and the poetics of everyday spaces. She is currently working towards two series, The Seen Quiet and Still weather, both of which examine stillness as both an emotional and visual state - a way of witnessing what is felt beneath the surface.
Daisy has been painting since before she can remember. One of her earliest memories is standing at a small easel in the kitchen painting with poster paints. By the age of six she was immersed in watercolours and often browsing the local art shop with her father. When her great-grandfather passed away she bought a wooden box of water colours to remember him by which she used for years.
Daisy received full marks for A level but at the time of applying to University she hadn’t yet studied psychology and was unsure of the path she wanted to take. After teaching herself psychology A level independently, she went on to complete an undergraduate degree in Psychology at Oxford Brookes University before completing a masters degree in Mental Health and Psychological Therapies at Queen Mary University London.
Although Daisy painted sporadically during her years of study - often during difficult or uncertain chapters - it was only later on that Daisy started returning to painting with greater dedication. Rather than dividing her creative and psychological backgrounds, she started to notice her understanding of how memory, emotion and perception shaped the way she worked with light, colour and space.
Motherhood became another turning point in the development of Daisy’s paintings as she began to sharpen her attention to the intimate, the fleeting and the quietly radiant moments of daily life. Daisy’s painting of her son standing by the sink marked the beginning of a deeper exploration of domestic interior as a sanctuary - not just as a background but as a place where time, tenderness and transformation unfold.
Daisy’s evolving collections now include a mixture of architecture, landscape and emotive scenes inspired by lived experience. Her sensitivity towards mood and light remain central throughout. Whether portraying interior shadows, a rainy street scene or atmospheric weather, her paintings draw inward, inviting the viewer to pause, to feel and to notice what is easily missed.
Daisy's painting 'Small Ritual' was selected for the 2025 ING Discerning Eye exhibition at Mall Galleries and her painting 'Where the Light Falls' has been selected for the RBA Rising Stars Exhibition and Rome Scholarship shorlist 2026. Daisy's painting 'The Quiet Hour' has been selected for The Society of Women Artists 165th Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries in June 2026.
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Society of Women Artists 165th Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2026 RBA Rising Stars, Royal Over-Seas League, London
2025 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2025 Oxfordshire Art Weeks, Derwent House, Witney
2025 The Spring Exhibition, The Hunter Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
2025 Battersea Art Fair, London
2024 Manchester Art Fair, Hatch Gallery
2024 Little Picture Show, Highgate Contemporary Art, London
2024 Battersea Spring Art Fair, The Hunter Gallery, London
2023 Manchester Art Fair, Hatch Gallery, Manchester
2023 The Summer Exhibition, Highgate Contemporary Art, London
2023 Battersea Art Fair, London
2022 The November Postcard Exhibition, Highgate Contemporary Art, London
2022 The Summer Exhibition, Hatch Gallery, Christchurch, Dorset
2022 Oxfordshire Artweeks, Derwent House, Witney, Oxfordshire
2022 The Spring Postcard Exhibition, Highgate Contemporary Art, London
2022 The Spring Exhibition, The Hunter Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
2021 The November Postcard Exhibition, Highgate Contemporary Art, London
2021 The Autumn Air Exhibition, Hatch Gallery, Christchurch, Dorset
2021 The Summer Exhibition, The Hunter Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
2021 Fresh Art Fair, represented by Park Gallery, Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucestershire
2021 The Coastal Exhibition, Hatch Gallery, Christchurch, Dorset
2021 The Spring Exhibition, The Hunter Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
PRESS
2021 Vanity Fair, The December/January Holiday Issue
2021 British GQ, January/February Double Edition
2021 Round and About Magazine, January Issue
2020 The World of Interiors, October Issue
2020 The World of Interiors, September Issue
COLLABORATIONS
2023 Art In Rug (Home Decor Company)
2022 Studio Duquette, Battersea London (Design Studio)
2022 Cam Browne, Oregon, USA (Film Maker)
2021 Cotswold Candle Company, Oxfordshire ( Handmade Candle Company)
CHARITIES AND DONATIONS
2025 - Painting donated to Cokethorpe School raising money to fund art initiatives in the local community
2025 - Three postcard painting donated to the Anonymous HeART Exhibition to raise money for Heart Research UK
2025 - Postcard painting donated to the anonymous heART project for Heart Research UK
2023 - Canvas painting donated to an Auction raising money for Brainstorm Charity
2022 - Christmas card collaboration. 100% of the profit was donated to 'Brainstorm', a Brain Tumour Research Charity based in Oxford. www.brainstormcharity.co.uk
2022 canvas painting (10x12") donated to IMARA, an independent specialist service that supports children, young people and their safe family members following a disclosure or discovery of sexual abuse. The painting was exhibited at The Nottingham Society of Artists gallery from 9th-15 May
MENTORING
2022 - 2023 Creative Mentor for Soho House and Ambassador for Creative Mentor Network
ART SOCIETIES
2021 - Present. Member of CNarts (Chipping Norton Arts Society)
