About Hayley Dayis:

Hayley Dayis was raised with an appreciation for philosophy, the arts, and the rhythms of land. Her work slows down time to invite curiosity, deep thought and catharsis. The foraged pigments that she uses in the creation of her current work infuse each piece with the subtle majesty of the Earth’s color spectrum while paying homage to the innate, yet too often overlooked, reciprocity and dependency between humans and land.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from Purchase College in 2014, Hayley traveled extensively throughout the United States and Mexico, and in the process discovered her love for painting as a way to visually log her experiences and discoveries. In 2017, after attending an event in Mexico that raised awareness about water health and pollution, Hayley quickly became interested in finding non-chemical painting methods. This search led her to her partner Alexander Fals, foraged pigment painter, who introduced her to his family’s technique of painting with foraged pigments from the region of Cauca, Colombia where she now lives and paints for half of each year.