Jane Gehr Hammoud
Art Potter

After retiring from a thirty-year career in business and nonprofit management, Jane turned her attention to a very early love of hers, working with clay.  She even has the very first fired pot she made as a child with the number 1 on the bottom.   She began by taking classes locally at Bemis and the USAFA Art & Craft studio and continues to learn by attending workshops with various experts in the field.  She established her own studio in her home and throws on a wheel and hand-builds her pieces using both white stoneware and porcelain. One of her inspirations is the work of Artus and Anne Van Briggle as well as other “Art Potters”, thus, her line of mat glazed vases with soft designs of nature.  She also loves color (LOTS of color!) and playing with an array of glazes that blend together to create new hues and may resemble a peacock’s tail!  Each of her pieces are unique.  She works to develop new designs all the time, but generally there is some form of nature or a variety of color in her work.  The “Mark” on her pottery is the Arabic J as acknowledgement of her first initial and Moroccan last (married) name: