“My work explores human experience through the magical, mysterious and sacred. It calls to our common humanity”.
Jane is an artist and Interfaith Minister working from the Wiltshire/ Somerset border. Her work is sensitive to form and place, drawing on the created landscapes of our deep past.
Jane works with cross-cultural visual language, narratives and experiences that inform our world views. She creates objects that hold a timeless resonance; places that call us to pause and reflect. Her practice draws on artefacts and monuments across cultures and time. She uses the ancient process of coiling clay to amplify themes of human experience with material and ritual. Her aim is to draw attention to what is fundamentally human - looking backwards in order to move forwards.
Jane trained in art, education and religious studies and has held a career in ceramics and art education since 1990. A British Council grant brought opportunity to research clay as a spiritual material in Africa in 1999. She ordained as an Interfaith Minister in 2018.
A minimal sustainable approach to materials, tools and firing is core to Jane’s practice. An expert in the ancient art of handcoiling, her pieces are made individually in the simple, laborious techniques used by our ancient ancestors.
Jane is a selected member of HomoFaber Guide and Craft Potters Association. Recent awards include the Jane Bowe Memorial Award (Wells Open Contemporary 2025) Best 3D entry (Bath Society of Artists 120th Open Exhibition 2025). Her work currently features in the 173rd RWA Open Exhibition, Bristol and ‘Earth’ (Roseberry Road Studios, Bath). Her studio is in Frome, close to the ancient sites of Avebury and Stonehenge.
Coming up - ‘Sculptural Ceramics’ (Gallery 57, Arundel) and ‘Cosmos: the art of observing Space’ a touring exhibition showing next in Aberdeen Art Gallery.
