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Kay
Boyce

Kay Boyce was born in Sheffield and Studied
Illustration at college for four years before working as a freelance illustrator
producing editorial work for Woman’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 & Staughton, Wordsworth Romantics, Mills & Boon and Mandarin. During this
period, she also produced fine art paintings and drawings that have been sold at
various galleries and exhibitions around the UK including, The AOI Gallery and
Barbican Centre, London and The Science & Industry Museum, Manchester. Her
paintings have also been sold in the USA and Europe. In 1999 Kay exhibited her
work at the Sheffield Art Show and her originals fetched record prices.
She completed a project for RADA, which included portraits of 23 famous actors
and actresses with the final work being assessed and approved by Sir Richard
Attenborough. Recognition for her talent arrived with Kay being voted a finalist
for the Fine Art Trade Guild’s Best-Selling Artist Award in both 2001 and 2002.
As a child she would often spend hours at a time drawing on rolls of wallpaper;
this was the beginning of her passion for drawing.
Kay’s career as an Artist has flourished; her pastels and pencil drawings have
become instantly recognisable. Kay is often to be found working in her studio at
her home in the Glyn Morlas valley, near Oswestry, with the background voices of
Radio Four.
Friends, acquaintances and sometimes herself often model for her graceful
studies of the female form. Kay has the petite form of a dancer. She trained in
ballet and contemporary dance; it is this that has given her an insight into her
subject and an aptitude for reproducing it. In Kay’s own words ‘There is nothing
quite like the feeling and movement of dance’: in latter years Kay has taken up
salsa dancing!
It is her empathy for the female form in movement, combined with a love of
original Victorian clothes and antiques which she collects that inspire her to
produce the soft, yet sensual images that have become her trademark. There is a
fine line between eroticism and sensuality and Kay achieves the right balance.
Kay also draws inspiration, from famous works such as those by Edgar Degas,
Botticelli and Almer Tasimer: their use of composition and how they portray the
texture in their materials intrigue her.
Kay rarely titles her images herself, although there is one particular title
that holds a place in her heart: ‘Little Lizzy’, this is the pet name her Father
gave her when she was a young girl.
It is Kay’s ambition to live in France. It is the way of life, the food, the
people and the space that appeal to her. The warm weather of Bordeaux is a world
away from the windswept rainy valleys of the Shropshire Dales, in which Kay
spends her pastime walking.
Kay hopes to try her hand at oil painting and sculpture ‘you get such richness
and depth with oils. I feel the subject matter would lend itself well. I would
love to sculpt semi nudes, probable the female form, but possibly male, too!’
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Watching II NEW |
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Original Pastel
Image: 300 x 220mm
Frame: 580 x 500mm
Price: £1195.00 framed (inc. VAT)
£995.84 framed (exc. VAT) |
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She's Got the Look NEW |
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Original Pastel
Image: 300 x 220mm
Frame: 580 x 500mm
Price: £1195.00 framed (inc. VAT)
£995.84 framed (exc. VAT) |
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Looking Back NEW |
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Original Pastel
Image: 300 x 220mm
Frame: 580 x 500mm
Price: £1075.00 framed (inc. VAT)
£895.84 framed (exc. VAT) |
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Watching NEW |
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Original Pastel
Image: 180 x 240mm
Frame: 460 x 520mm
Price: £725.00 framed (inc. VAT)
£604.17 framed (exc. VAT) |
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Apres la Repetition (After the Performance) |
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Signed Limited Edition (95)
Image: 315 x 660mm
Price: £240.00 (inc. VAT) |
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Silk and Satin |
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Signed Limited Edition (95)
Image: 470 x 650mm
Price: £240.00 (inc. VAT) |
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Olivia |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 452 x 305mm
Price: SOLD |
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Elegance |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 457 x 470mm
Price: SOLD |
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Jessica |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 200 x 150mm
Price: SOLD |
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Angelina I |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 460 x 300mm
Price: SOLD |
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Angelina II |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 460 x 300mm
Price: SOLD |
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Sophie |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 200 x 150mm
Price: SOLD |
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Lucy |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 200 x 150mm
Price: SOLD |
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Chloe |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 200 x 150mm
Price: SOLD |
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Ellie |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 200 x 150mm
Price: SOLD |
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Romany |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 520 x 290mm
Price: SOLD |
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As Time Goes By |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 457 x 381mm
Price: SOLD |
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Louisa I |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 381 x 381mm
Price: SOLD |
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Louisa II |
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Signed Limited Edition
Size: 381 x 381mm
Price: SOLD |
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Dress Rehersal |
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Bronze Sculpture
SOLD |
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