About

Biography

Kay is a multi-medium artist. Her works include watercolours, oils, acrylics, pen & ink, ceramics, and sculpture and mosaics. She has sold paintings in Britain, France, South Africa, Botswana, and America having exhibited extensively in South Africa over the last 20 years.

Her life has largely revolved around matters artistic, having owned and taught at several ballet schools in the 60’s, through architectural drawing and draughting, to adjudicating on exhibition panels and eisteddfods.

Apart from exhibiting and selling through the Watercolour Society of South Africa she was also occasionally on the national selection committee for their exhibtions.

She also taught art for several years in Grahamstown and Pretoria.

She was self taught until at the age of 56 she enrolled at the art school of Pretoria Technikon in South Africa. She completed two years of study there.

Today Kay lives in Barwell, Leicestershire in the United Kingdom and divides her time between her art, her garden and renovating her home.

 

Commissions

from 1997 until present time has done private commissions.

1997 Painting for Doone Village Home for the Aged. Natal.

1997 Book covers and illustrations for Nasou Via Afrika publishers.

1996 Artwork for KZN Ltd Publishers.

1995 Illustrations for Shuter and Shooter (Pty) Ltd

1995 Book covers for Reach Out Publishers (Pty) Ltd.

1995 Six commissioned calendar paintings for Swan Publishers with a distribution of 3.5 million throughout South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, Botswana, and Maputo.

1994-1996 Privately commissioned architectural pen and ink drawings for clients in Grahamstown, Durban and Atlanta, USA.

1994 Painting for Church of England, Claremont, Cape Town, to show empathy for the Saint James Church massacre.