Much of what I have done in the past, including details of my published books, is to be found on my own website www.janewaller.co.uk, which is also where you can contact me.

But come to this site, designed and kept up to date by Michael, to find out what I’ve been doing recently, what I’m working on, or what’s coming up.

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“ME JANE”: memoir of my childhood.

I’ve been spending most of my time at the computer recently, working on a memoir of my early years, from four up till the time I went off to art college in Oxford.  Michael has just put the opening chapter in the blog section.  Let me know what you think of it.

BUCKS OPEN STUDIOS  (details on left)

It went very well, and we’re keen to use the same venue next year. I’m very pleased that I managed to sell several framed and unframed drawings of Dancers in Motion, one of the Yoga ceramic sculptures (see the photo above) and quite a few of my books.  The only annoying thing was the ‘Beggars Belief’ affair.  The Stewart Hall, where we are holding the exhibition, is very popular for meetings, classes and so on, all of which are going on despite the exhibition.

Most people attending these events were pleased, sometimes delighted, with one exception.  That, ironically, was the group studying painting in watercolour.  Led by one particular woman they complained to their teacher about the fact that some of the natural light had been obscured by stands on which some of the artists’ work was hanging. ‘It beggars belief [that a group of artists should be so inconsiderate blah blah blah]’ they wrote in my comments book.  Really. I do my drawings of dancers in almost complete darkness. And I imagine Caravaggio would have given an arm to have the amount of light these amateurs had, despite the stands.

DRAWINGS & CERAMICS

Go to MY ALBUMS to see example of works showing different aspects of the female form, which have recently been on exhibition in Princes Risborough and can still be available from the gallery.

And go to the BLOG archive to see some of the drawings I’ve been doing of Dancers in Movement.

CERAMICS

Above, there is a photograph from a series of ceramic cornucopias I have produced on the theme of the harm we are inflicting on our planet. This green form represents reptiles and amphibians, while others deal with the land, forests, the air, the sea and so on.  Look out for a blog or album entry giving more details and photos of the project.

WRITING

My two most recent published works are both knitting books. The first is:

Knitting Fashions of the 1940s: styles, patterns and history, published by  The Crowood Press  (2006, reprinted 2009) ISBN 1-86126-862-9.

http://www.crowood.com/details.asp?isbn=9781861268624&t=Knitting-Fashions-of-the-1940s---Styles,-Patterns-and-History

and the second is an updated republication, co-written with Susan Crawford, of the classic

A Stitch in Time: knitting and crochet patterns of the 1920s, 30s, 40s & 50s. Arbour House Publishing (2008) ISBN 978-0-9556206-2-1

www.knitonthenet.com/stitchintime/

Contact me through my website (see above) to let me have your comments.

Jane