Kay Boyce
Kay studied illustration at Wrexham College before working as a freelance illustrator. She produced editorial work for Women s Weekly, Bella, My Weekly, Sunday Express and Woman s Own. Her illustration work has carried her through to major book publishers such as Hodder and Staughton, Wadsworth Romantics, Mills and Boon and Mandarin. Although Kay is proud of her achievement in commercial illustration her true vocation is as an artist.Kays career as an artist has flourished; her pastel and pencil drawings have become instantly recognisable, and her work has graced private collections for many years, and she is now firmly established as a leading figurative artist.
Her delicate use of pastels and love of antique clothes and fabrics lend a soft feminine quality to her work which appeals to men and women alike.
Having trained in Ballet and contemporary dance (and now Salsa), it is this that has given her an insight into her subject and an aptitude for reproducing it.
She has been a top published artist with Soloman and Whitehead for many years which has taken her to a finalist for Best Published Artist not just once, but for four years.
Also achieving a place in Top Ten Living Artists list, at no. 4 in 2004 and no. 8 in 2005.
(Quote from Art Business Today, October 2005 issue)
Kay has always had a desire and ambition to develop her work into oils and is now working on new images to be shown later this year, 2007.
Kay has recently completed her first work in oil. In a recent interview, she discussed the experience:
"It has been a wonderful experience to paint my first oil. Having talked about working with oils for so long, I am so happy to have made that step. I gave myself a challenge by working on a large canvas and being my first, I wanted it to be a self portrait. I felt that all my years of drawing and painting fabrics and skin tone has given me the confidence to paint my subject matter in oil, it is a lovely medium to work with, time consuming, intense, emotional, rewarding
