“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 focuses on the liminal - the seen and unseen - drawing on cross-cultural visual language and the narratives and experiences that inform our ways of seeing. She creates objects that hold a timeless resonance; places that call us to pause and reflect. Her practice draws on ancient global artefacts and monuments across cultures and time. She works with clay to amplify themes of human experience with material and ritual.
Jane comes from an art background. She trained initially as a teacher specialising in art and religious studies and has held a career in ceramics and lecturer in 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.
Her studio is in Frome, close to the ancient sites of Avebury and Stonehenge. Work has sold previously through Selfridges with solo and group exhibitions in Kensington and across England.
Jane is a selected member of Craft Potters Association and HomoFaber Guide. 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 ‘Cosmos: the art of observing Space’ a touring exhibition at RWA Bristol. Next event is Ceramic Art London (8-10 May, Olympia West).
