Jane has worked with ceramics since her training as a teacher in the late 80’s in Art and Design, where she quickly realised her passion for hand coiling and natural low fired decoration. Jane was a ceramics technician at Bath College and then a full time lecturer for 15years. She was awarded by South West Arts in 1997 and took a sabbatical in 1998 travelling around Africa, then returning as a guest to Namibia with British Council Funding.

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‘I work with clay; our earliest building material with endless versatility.  It connects us globally with our earliest ancestry and common humanity.  Immediate and receptive, it links us emotionally with our planet. I’m drawn to its metaphorical language and ancient stories that speak of a bond between humanity, clay and the creator. Clay has so much to say.Working with clay using ancient hand building techniques is a slow, immersive process.  It brings time for contemplation and meditation. Each coil applied is significant in the direction of the emerging form.  Each stage contributes to a ritual; clay preparation, the slow build, the practical considerations of scale, scraping down to reveal the pure form, then burnishing.  It’s lengthy, laborious; the antithesis of modern culture.  It can’t be hurried’.

The patterns on Jane’s vessels occur as a result of the resist work, made from paper, that is applied to the burnished vessel. The vessel is then smoke fired in Jane’s garden, the resist work deteriorating to form the organic ally made surface pattern.

Jane draws from the ancient landscape of the Wiltshire/ Somerset border where she lives and a sense of the sacred created through form - how atmosphere is held within the architecture of shape and space.