After graduating from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Jane studied ceramics in the Design Program at Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario and later at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Banff, Alberta. Since 1981, her work has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States. Jane has received numerous awards from the Ontario Arts Council for her work in porcelain, and for seven years was the co-curator of the Millbrook Gallery in Millbrook, Ontario. Jane lives in the country near the Village of Millbrook where she shares a studio with her partner, woodturner, Ted Hodgetts.
Of her medium, Jane says: “I think of clay as a touchstone, linking different worlds and traditions. Making pots is an encounter with these worlds and a way of connecting with areas of experience which are larger than oneself. From the beginning of pot making, it seems to me that the potter’s task has been to find a unity between form and surface. My relationship to the integration of form and surface is the thread that binds the different aspects of my work together and continues to be my greatest pleasure and challenge as a potter.”
After graduating from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Jane studied ceramics in the Design Program at Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario and later at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Banff, Alberta. Since 1981, her work has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States. Jane has received numerous awards from the Ontario Arts Council for her work in porcelain, and for seven years was the co-curator of the Millbrook Gallery in Millbrook, Ontario. Jane lives in the country near the Village of Millbrook where she shares a studio with her partner, woodturner, Ted Hodgetts.
Of her medium, Jane says: “I think of clay as a touchstone, linking different worlds and traditions. Making pots is an encounter with these worlds and a way of connecting with areas of experience which are larger than oneself. From the beginning of pot making, it seems to me that the potter’s task has been to find a unity between form and surface. My relationship to the integration of form and surface is the thread that binds the different aspects of my work together and continues to be my greatest pleasure and challenge as a potter.”