Jill Fanshawe Kato

Inspired by forms in the natural world, Jill hand builds larger pieces and throws and alters others. Clays and slips are from Devon and Cornwall and she uses imagery seen locally and drawn in sketchbooks on her travels abroad. She experiments with clays and creating new slip colours and prefers firing with gas reduction, for the alchemy of unpredictable results. Jill Fanshawe Kato grew up in the countryside near Torquay in Devon and kept many birds and animals, her close observation of the natural world has influenced her later work as artist and potter. Jill graduated in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art, London and gained an art teacher’s diploma from Brighton Teacher’s Training College, ATD.