Jane Jermyn began studying ceramics in her mid 40’s, receiving her MA from the National College of Art, Dublin in 2009. She has travelled the world taking part in symposia, workshops, residencies & exhibitions in over 20 countrries as well as demonstrating at International ceramics festivals in the UK, Japan, South Korea, Ireland and India. Since 2017 she has been an elected member of the International Academy of Ceramics based in Geneva.
Jermyn hand-builds her abstract organic forms inspired by the natural world. She sees her work as a celebration, rather than an imitation of nature.
Jane will demonstrate obvara firing during the festival. She first learnt about obvara at a ceramics symposium in Belarus in 2009 – where she found it fascinating and loved the immediate effects of this technique. In 2012 she started a Facebook page “Obvara firing technique” to spread the word and there are now over 4,000 members and is now practiced around the world. Obvara, which means ‘scalded’ in Russian, is a traditional method of pottery decoration, dating back around 600 years, though there is very little written evidence, the technique was mainly handed down by word of mouth in a number of countries in Eastern Europe.
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