Jennie Hale ceramics - Open Studios

Jennie will have a collection of both her Raku fired birds, animal and decorated earthenware. Plus her latest Nature diaries.

Jennie will be showing a new collection of her Raku fired Birds and animals. She will be demonstrating how she hand builds these during the week. There will also be a collection for her decorated earthenware.

Natural history has been a lifelong passion for Jennie and the work she shows is a reflection of this passion.

Jennie has been making ceramics for over 35 five years, she started Raku firing while studying Ceramics at Loughborough college of Art. She has continued to work in Raku since then, although for 10 or more years she salt glazed a range of thrown and altered Quirky birds and animals.

Now her work is based on the flora and fauna she studies and makes drawings of around where she lives and works although humour is always present. The drawings are compiled into nature diaries which she has illustrated and written for over 28 years. They inform her work being the source of material, which develops into a range of tableware and sculpture, but are a body of work in themselves, not only as her work source, but as information for both Scientists and researchers.

Over the years she has monitored many species for natural history bodies from Butterfly conservation, Forestry commission to the BTO. This collaboration led her to found, a not for profit community group”Workshop Under The Sky”, where Artists and Scientists work together to Help people of all ages and abilities learn about the natural world through scientific methodology and observational drawing and painting. We have yurt as a classroom and Jennie and her team has run projects all over Devon and Cornwall. The project has won numerous awards and Jennie has run similar events in the USA.

During open studio’s Jennie will run drawing sessions, where you can join in and have fun. Jennies works is represented in Galleries though out the uk and is in public and private collections both nationally and internationally.

Refreshments available

For further details contact: [email protected]