By combining the disparate elements of found and original photography, collage, colorful paint and textural drawing, Arless Day creates tropical paradises, architectural landscapes and pastoral interiors. "I like to connect to a beautiful setting that really does not exist, but has a character of its own and in which everyone can feel positive because there is something new and refreshing...but in which there are always some missing elements or little mysteries."

Day's panoramas mix places, architectural detail and subjects in dreamlike environments, paradises where a large white house looms over a lush lawn and white pelicans lazily bathe under a Japanese bridge. By combining these utopian visions, "dreams of places I will never go and houses I will never own," with a command of various media, he achieves art which is illusory, appealing to both the logical mind and the subjective imagination.

Selected by major corporate collections, the artist's work is also included in the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC and Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC.

BIRTHPLACE: Baton Rouge, LA EDUCATION: Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL EXHIBITIONS: Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

NCNB South Carolina Traveling Art Exhibition

McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Cudahy's Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY

Munson Gallery, Vero Beach, FL

Art Miami, Miami Beach, FL

Augen Gallery, Portland, OR