Once purified by the terrifying ordeal of fire, this substance of so precious a humility becomes, by it's permanence, the truest bearer of the message of mankind: however far back in time one goes, the evidence of humanity from the earliest epochs reaches us, not engraved in stone which crumbles to dust and erodes, not cast in metal which rusts and powders, but on little tablets of baked clay, with graphic signs as expressive today as when beneath the stylus of the scribe who traced them.

Georges Ramie, Ceramics of Picasso

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y ABOUT KAY

1962 - 1967:  Mud pie maker, The Stream, Rose Cottage, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire

1981 - 1983:  Part time student of Christine Boswijk, Nelson Polytechnic

1985 - current:  Tutor of  various adult education classes and weekend workshops, and attend many as a student.

1999 - current:  Works accepted in several national exhibitions, including the Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award and the NZSP Annual Exhibition, Winner of the 2000 Waikato/Bay of Plenty Ceramics Award

1999:  Consultant/technician for the Whakatane Museum and Gallery's Millennium Tile Border project in Peace Park.

2002 - 2003:  Central North Island Delegate to NZ Potters Society (now NZ Potters)

2003:  Consultant/technician to the Whakatane District Council Parks and Reserves Department $2m Kopeopeo Village Upgrade, winner of the 2004 Creative Communities Youth Art Award

My works can be found in a number of specialized art outlets throughout New Zealand