Jane Charles
2 Tone Bottle (JC132/20)
Glass
In 1980 Jane went to the North Staffordshire Polytechnic to study Ceramics. She loved the material but being of an impatient nature she was getting frustrated with the length of time that the process took. Next door was the studio glass workshop. It was a hot noisy and an exciting place to be, but most importantly the process was immediate. A piece could be made one day and got out of the kiln the following day to start cold working on.
Jane tried to fight her growing interest in the medium but eventually had to give in. Here began her affair with hot glass. The techniques were hard to learn and at times it seemed an impossible task to acquire the enough technical skills not to inhibit her creativity but not to become so bogged down in technique that the work would become static and lifeless. Jane loved the energy of glass.
On finishing her degree, Jane went to the heart of the British glass industry, Dudley near Stourbridge in the Midlands. Here she did a traditional course on g... [more]
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