Jane Adams - Ceramics

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She was self-taught at first, and subsequently trained in ceramics at Loughborough University, becoming a full time ceramic artist in 1998.

Her work has a gentle sense of humour and does not try to be accurately representational. She seeks to capture the character and spirit of the animals she makes, and says she actively avoids the 'cute'.

The work is handmade in sandy, heavily textured, stoneware crank clay and modelled using a technique somewhere between slabbing and coiling, leaving many of the making marks visible, and many of her pieces have a simple oxide finish.

She has been busy developing a range of sculptures based on social types and stereotypes using sheep as a vehicle. These works are witty, highly imaginative and beautifully detailed.