Kay Johns was born in Tring, Hertfordshire, in 1964. Kay spent most of her childhood around horses, riding around the beautiful Chiltern Hills and surrounding countryside. Always having a house full of pets, and an extreme passion for painting and drawing, painting pets and wildlife was an obvious choice of subject matter. After attending Watford Art College and a London Art College for a total of four years, Kay achieved a distinction in graphic design/illustration, going on to work for a publisher designing children's books. In 2004 Kay's career changed direction when she met her partner David, who ran a business selling high quality wildlife art. A move to the country, and exhibiting at all the main agricultural county shows, Kay took advantage of being surrounded by wildlife and livestock, all just waiting to be captured on canvas