Jan Lee
Jan Lee’s naked raku and saggar-fired works balance a soft elegance of form with the intense crackling electricity of daring smoke patterns. These meticulously smooth vessels serve as a quiet frame for bold swaths of lightning, fracture, and inferno
Jan Lee at MudFire
Group gallery show Teapots A-Go-Go 2006, April 2006
Solo show Naked Raku, May 2004
About Jan Lee
Jan Lee has been working in clay since 1973. After graduating with a degree in art education and teaching art and jewelry for several years, she moved to Lake Toxaway, NC in 1981. She has lived there making and selling her pottery for the past twenty-two years.
Recently Jan shifted her focus to unglazed (or "naked") surfaces that take on unique patterns and colors, marked by the fire and smoke of the raku process. This new work has been accepted into a national ceramic juried competition, been juried into the prestigious Southern Highlands Craft Guild, and been accepted into publication into an upcoming book on alternative firing practices.
