| Jane Goslin Peiser | ||
| Birth Date: 1932 |
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| Jane Goslin Peiser was born in Webster Groves, Missouri. She received her BA degree from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee and an MA from the Institute of Design in Chicago. She is a self-taught ceramist.
She started out as a painter but didn’t enjoy it much. Once she became interested in mosaics, she eventually bought a kiln to make and fire her own pieces. She chose to work in relative isolation from other professional craftsmen. “Finding my own way with clay was easier for me because I was out of touch with other current potters and schools of pottery.”
Peiser considers her pots utilitarian. Her work is very individualistic using the millefiore technique, a glass technique she learned from her husband. Making a millefiore pot is very much like making ice box cookies. Peiser uses white porcelain clay and colors it with stains and oxides. She makes a sketch first and then proceeds to construct the image rolling out colored slabs to represent the various parts of the image and then piling them on top of each other. She keeps layering and packing these all together until she has what looks like a big loaf of bread. Peiser slices a piece off with a wire and rolls it larger with a rolling pin. She is now ready to start building a pot inside a plaster mold shape. After the piece is dry, it is sanded and bisque fired, then glazed and fired in a salt kiln. One more low fire firing is done after details are painted on with china paint.
Jane makes her creations at her home in Penland, North Carolina.
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