1968    Spent several terms doing Earthenware with Jack                                       Montgomery at Ringwood Tech.

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1970    Studied Stoneware and Raku with Reg Preston, Elsa Arden                     and Peter Laycock in the very early days of the newly opened               Potter's School in Warrandyte.

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1971    Became "Hand Building Tutor" at the Potter's School.

             Was one of eight former students of Potter's School to                             become permanent exhibitors with the founder potter's at                   Potter's Gallery. 

             Built one of the first natural gas kilns in Victoria and                               continued to teach as Co-director at school, conducting many               happy summer schools and workshops in Raku and primitive               firings, salt glazing and kiln building.

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1980    Left Potter's School to establish Strawberry Fields Gallery in                 McAdam Square, Croydon. Has had many successful solo and               group exhibitions at Potter's Gallery and elsewhere. Natural                 forms inspire shapes and textures of her pots. Shells, stones                 and fossils are used to impress wet clay surfaces. Wood ash,                 sand and rutile are used in simple natural glazed or dry                           surfaces and fired to 1300 degrees centigrade in a gas kiln.                     Kay also has an interest in water colours, printmaking and                   woodwork.

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1999    Formed a group composed of creative women friends, who                   are involved in a variety of arts and crafts. They meet in her                 garden studio every Tuesday to pursue and share their skills.               Kay is currently involved in water colour, calligraphy and                       learning the moods of her new kiln.