She has recently been drawn to working with clay alongside her art and has a particularly strong interest in Japanese tea bowls. The material in particular, fascinates Jane, the endless possibilities and subtleties of slips and oxides on different clay bodies. The variations and precarious nature of firing, acts as an antidote to the relative control of applying paint to a surface. It is the power of the materials over the maker that is so engrossing and inevitably for an artist so addictive. Tweet