Biography

Originally from Durham, Jane moved to London to study and in 1999 graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Ceramics.

She rented her first studio space at Clockwork Studios in Loughborough Junction, London before moving to York. Here she continued to develop her work, exhibiting widely throughout the UK and abroad, also producing pieces to commission.

In 2011 Jane took a break from making, to help her husband set up a microbrewery. After a longer than expected diversion into brewing, Jane is now back in her studio and enjoying working with clay once again.

Work

Jane combines painting and ceramics to make three dimensional paintings.

Using expressive brushstrokes she creates abstract landscapes on the inside of slab-built earthenware vessels, the form acting as a frame for the painting within. In contrast the chalky white exteriors are calm and precise with clean-cut edges emphasizing shadow and line.

In her recent work, 'Ghost Pots', Jane exposes the paintings, releasing them from their containment. This work explores destruction as creativity, where destruction becomes a positive and expressive act. After meticulously forming, controlling and resolving a piece it is purposefully 'broken', allowing chance and serendipity to take over.

Echoing how nature can change landscapes in a single event such as a rockfall or violent storm, the sherds, breaks and cracks reveal unexpected angles and viewpoints, leaving the viewer to fill in the gaps of what was previously there.