Growing up in South Africa affects you profoundly, you never really lose those memories that drift through your mind and heart like those wisps of smoke when sitting around the bush camp boma. The incredible beauty and peace of the bush remains tantalisingly close – the majesty of the wild bush, the violence of the thunderstorms, the starkness of a tree against a red sunset, the friendliness of the people juxtaposed with the past cruelty – there is no country quite like it. And now I am in my new home in Australia I find I still return to Africa through my painting, printmaking and sculpture – I hope to share my love of the wild with other people.”   Kay Knights