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Jacqui was born in Cheshire and after many moves around the country settled in Hastings six years ago. She has studied at Hastings College of Art for the past four years. She classes her ceramics as sculptures in fine art form ‘because it serves nothing but itself and has little asked of it, but that it exists.’ She describes her work as primitive or naïve; not academic in the sense of absorbing an influence or tradition, though the influence of surrealism may be detected. She works by feeling and instinct, discovering forms that express intangible human emotions. Each piece is hand crafted and goes through several firings as the successive layers of mixed glazes are applied.

Her exhibitions include: Hastings Pier, Bourne Hall, and Rock-a-Nore Gallery Hastings Her work is also in several private collections.

"I use mainly terracotta clays but incorporate other clays for example paper clay and occasionally slip cast and mixed media. The glazing is also unique as the glazes are all mixed in small quantities so that every part is quite different. Each piece is hand glazed and can be fired up to six times. The heads can never be duplicated in any way."

Contact Jacqui by phone on 01424 443638 or email her HERE

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THE GIRL

Made from terra cotta clay and has metal spikes on her tongue and round her eye. Hair pigtails are tied on so that you have a choice of styles.

MR DOG

Hand made and glazed, this piece has two main faces, one of a dog and one of a man with a cigarette.

MR MAN

Hand made and hand glazed. There are a lot of little creatures around him and inside the head which is open at the back.

£200

MR FAG

This is a smaller piece, hand made and glazed. It has two faces and an open head at the back. He has a lot of little objects in and around his head.

MR WOLF

This piece has been hand made and hand glazed. It has three main faces, real teeth and a lot of small features which are difficult to see on the photo

MR SPACEMAN

He is a two-face head, hand made in a self-hardening clay. It has been partly hand-painted and then sprayed with gold and silver. It has false teeth and other features 

MR ARMS AND LEGS

This is made from white clay, with slip cast hands and legs, with paperclay pieces and false teeth. It has several faces and lots of little features.

MR MASK

This is hand made and glazed. It has one main face, a mask and pieces of face. It is made from paperclay, porcelain clay and slip cast clays and crank clay.