Kay has named her canvas series "Textures of Nature". Her imagery begins with straightforward photographs or scanned files, but her blending process makes the resulting work a unique and personal statement that is removed from ordinary photography. She states, "My intent is to create a woven effect - a close-up subject juxtaposed against a distant view, a passage of time or place, and natural textures blended with man-made structures."
The canvas prints vary in size. All prints less than 24" are done in Kay's own studio; larger prints are handled by Colson Art Printing in Valdosta, Georgia. Archival materials are used in both locations, and prints are coated with UV resistant varnishes.
The resulting images are identified as giclée prints. The term giclée is a French word loosely meaning sprayed. It has become the accepted term for the type of print that is being produced on state-of- the-art inkjet printers, which create the image by depositing millions of infinitesimally small droplets of ink on a substrate of paper, canvas, film, etc. The resulting print is nearly continuous in tone, with individual droplets of ink only barely visible even with a magnifying glass.
