Literature

Marjorie Reynolds, Dorothy Kay, Everything You Do is a Portrait of Yourself, Alec Marjorie Reynolds, Rosebank, 1989, pages 244 and 245, where a sketch of Shepherd Boy is illustrated.

In a letter to America dated 1951, mention is made for the first time of Kay's work in a new medium, work that was to engross her for the next three years.

'...I've made two statues!  Pottery woman sent me some clay as a kind of challenge because I said 'I'd love to do figures if I did pottery' - Got clay yesterday morning, & by lunch one was done!  Pottery woman brought Joan home at tea time but wouldn't come in - said she'd come when I'd done a figure! so I said to Joan 'Its done!'  Joan could'nt believe it & rang up Pottery woman who would'nt believe it either - & today I've done another - Two now, drying - for a couple of weeks - then they get fired - then I colour them & they're fired again - Such fun - I expect they're rotten as pottery goes - but I just had to try - I find it awfully easy!!! and clay is lovely to work with - so responsive - I just copy one of my drawings, front view - then put on the back & sides which follow easily! ...'

At the end of her letter Dorothy sketches the 'two statues' referred to in the first paragraph.