Daisy Sims‑Hilditch (born in 1991) is a British figurative artist based in London, celebrated for her expressive portraiture and dynamic landscape painting. Raised in Wiltshire within a deeply artistic family—her great‑great‑grandfather was Royal Academician H.W.B. Davis and both parents are designers, Daisy began drawing and painting as a child.

At 18, one of her portraits (of her grandfather) was selected for the Saatchi Gallery’s Sunday Telegraph Schools Prize exhibition. She later trained in sight‑size portraiture at the Charles Cecil Studios in Florence, honing her skill painting from life in both formal studio portraits and continued her love for pleinair painting at every opportunity.

Daisy’s work is driven by her fascination with light, particularly tonal relationships, and the fluid interplay of atmosphere and mood in plein air paintings. She often tackles contre jour scenes—Venetian canals, alpine vistas, coastal landscapes—and captures luminous moments through bold, painterly brushwork.

Her debut solo exhibition, From London to the Alps (Portland Gallery, January 2022), sold out rapidly. This was followed by Into the Light in 2023, featuring over 65 landscapes painted in Switzerland, Norfolk, Venice and English settings. Two further solo exhibitions followed, “La Grande Bellezza Del Paessaggio” and “In the Moment” both of which were sell out shows. Daisy has been widely exhibited: BP Portrait Award (National Portrait Gallery, 2016), Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Society of British Artists (where in 2020 she won the Gordon Hulson Memorial Prize for draftsmanship), The Royal Society of Marine Artists, and Fine Art Commissions Golden Buzzer Prize for a winter Thames scene.

Her paintings are held in distinguished collections including those of Philip Mould and Rhod McEwan and remain in demand among collectors seeking radiant, atmospheric works.