Ms Jane Waller

Surname: WALLER
Style: Ms Jane Waller
Recreations: reading, gardening, knitting, writing, conservation, cooking, ceramics, walking in the country

Career: since 1982: exhibited ceramics and life-drawings in London and many other parts of the country also in Kuwait, collections in LA, Chicago and Miami; work is sold at Bonhams and Sothebys, exhibits ceramics, life-drawings and drawings of Dancers in Movement from a box at Covent Garden Ballet Dress Rehearsals; author of articles in Ceramic Review and hand-blown glass in la revue de la Céramique et du Verre; started successful one woman campaign to save the Oxo Tower on the South Bank; involved in Coin St Orgn; added huge collection of patterns and women's magazines 1920-1960 to help inaugurate Nat Collection of Knitting Winchester Art Coll Library 2008

Books and Publications: A Stitch in Time (jtly, 1972, 2 edn 2008), Some Things for the Children (1974), A Man's Book (1977), The Thirties Family Knitting Book (1981), The Man's Knitting Book (1984), Women in Wartime (jt 1987), Women in Uniform (jt 1989), Handbuilt Ceramics (1990), Blitz (jtly 1990), Colour in Clay (1998), The Human Form in Clay (2001), Knitting Fashions of the 1940s (2006), A Stitch in Time Vol 2 (2011); For Children Below the Green Pond (1982), Saving the Dinosaurs (1994), The Sludge-Gulpers (1997)