Jane Wheeler is a British ceramic artist known for her minimalist, sculptural approach to pottery. After studying ceramics at Bath Academy of art, Corsham, Wheeler enjoyed a successful career in textiles designing hand-knit sweaters. In 2003, Wheeler returned to ceramics and developed a distinctive style focused on organic forms, subtle textures, and a natural color palette inspired by nature.
Wheeler’s work often features the hollow vessel, a form that to her offers the richest language for working in clay. The perceived simplicity alludes to our most distant past and the core of what it means to be human. Wheeler is known to push the work and working in intentionally uncomfortable ways in an attempt to discover hidden qualities in the contrast between the significant and ordinary. Wheeler’s ceramics, ranging from large vessels to delicate works, have been exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, earning recognition for their craftsmanship and balance between functionality and artistic expression.