ABOUT

Daisy Vesta Baker is a multi-hypenate creative visionary with a passion for story-telling. Currently based in the US, she enjoys traveling whenever possible - especially when it involves buying one-way tickets and back-packing through remote areas. She enjoys photography, videography, textile and costume design, collage, illustration, painting - as well as modeling, dancing, and other movement-based art forms.

Daisy has been an artist her entire life, but her career kicked off in 2013 while interning for fashion photographer Clay Cook. Her love of photography and fashion design combined with a Bachelor’s degree in Business inspired her to start her own clothing company - DaisyCakes. Daisy began selling her hand-dyed clothing in 2015 at various art markets and eventually opened a retail location inside Louisville’s Fleur de Flea in 2020. She later opened a second free-standing retail location, DaisyCakes Boutique and Art Space, in 2021 where she sold her creations as well as those made by her friends and other consignors. 

Daisy has taught workshops on her fabric dyeing method to over 650 community members internationally since 2018 and has collaborated with at least 10 other businesses to design custom dyed merchandise. Her art has been featured by LEO Weekly, Voice Tribune, Dharma Trading Company, and Great Day Live WHAS11. Daisy has also organized raffles of her artwork to fundraise for several local and national nonprofits. She believes that art should ideally be used in a way that helps inspire and enact social change. 

After over a decade of selling her hand-dyed clothing, Daisy is currently getting certified as a yoga teacher. She plans to combine her knowledge of somatic therapy and nervous system regulation techniques with her love of teaching art in a more therapeutic approach. She hopes to collaborate with others in a way helps that facilitate empowerment, connection, and a felt sense of safety through creative expression. She believes in working together to create the world we want to see.