About
Through delicate paper porcelain vessels, conceptual pieces on domesticity, or quick-fire sketches, my work draws together the fragility and complexity which lies behind everyday life.
I work in paper porcelain, hand building non-functional vessels, rolling the clay paper thin to create a delicate translucency once fired. They act like a blank canvas where pattern, surface, texture and proportion interplay. Each repeated textured mark is slowly and contemplatively applied.
Alongside this work, I make conceptual pieces around the subject of women, domesticity, invisible labour. Everyday life is a source of inspiration; a stack of paper-thin plates, a series of porcelain spoons, or a pile of jumbled porcelain letters. These quiet arrangements of ordinary, mundane objects are intrinsic to how I express myself through clay. Working in silence, the repeated line, like a stitch, develops its own rhythm and fosters a sense of stillness.
Walking every day gives me space and enables thoughts and ideas to fall into place. The pattern of a fabric on a passer-by, or in a window, will catch my eye and later appear abstracted in my work.
Drawing is an important part of my practice. Sketching on London’s trains, cafes, wherever I am, I observe people closely, capturing a fleeting moment with a spontaneous single line, drawn within minutes. They are an immediate response to the rhythms of everyday life and in contrast to the slow pace of my work in clay.
‘Jane’s pieces are both graphic and delicately architectural, confident but never loud. They bring a grounding presence to a room — calm, thoughtful, and full of integrity.’ - JOC Ceramics Gallery
education:
Chelsea School of Art Foundation
Winchester School of Art BA Fine Art
City & Guilds Award in Education and Training
prizes:
Selected member CPA 2020
Lowes Dickinson 2014
Lowes Dickinson 2017
Featured in Surface Decoration for Ceramics by Claire Ireland
exhibitions:
Contemporary Ceramics 2026
Messums West Plates for Purpose 2024
Boston Manor House Spoon Project 2024
Cecilia Colman 2024
JOC Ceramics 2024
Gallery Different for National Brain Appeal 2023
Domestic Dusters (touring) 2021
Porthminster Gallery Summer exhibition 2021
Gallery57 PAPER November 2020
Porthminster Gallery 2020