About Jane

Jane Waller is one of those people the British find difficult to categorise: someone who excels in a whole range of activities. After studying drawing, painting and sculpture she turned to ceramics, producing work described by the Arts Editor of the International Herald Tribune as “among the greatest creations of twentieth century pottery”.

And as if that isn’t enough, she is a professional writer – with 19 published books on a range of subjects. Her first book, ‘A Stitch in Time’ volume one, helped to launch a revival of interest in hand knitting. Since then, in addition to fashion, she has written children’s fiction, social history and three acclaimed books on ceramics.

Her 18th book 'Weather or Not' has just been published by AuthorHouse (May 2020) and is available from Amazon priced £7.99, for the paperback, and £3.99 for the Kindle Edition.

Her 19th book 'Me Jane'  (published 22 May 2020) is available from Amazon priced £27.71, for the paperback, and a much more reasonable £3.99 for the Kindle edition.

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Jane was born in the Chiltern Hills, in Buckinghamshire, a wooded area 40 miles north-west of London and this is where she now lives – in a flint and brick cottage on the edge of a wood – with her husband, Michael Vaughan-Rees, a writer and language specialist.

Jane Ashton Waller

For many years they lived right in the centre of London, in Waterloo, where they were active in campaigning to prevent the area becoming overrun by office blocks. Jane notably launched the successful Save the Oxo Tower Campaign, to guarantee the future of one of the few outstanding art deco buildings in the London area.

Jane’s mother was a distinguished stained glass artist, her father a surveyor and architect, specialising in the restoration of old buildings. They bought a Georgian manor house in Aylesbury, and the whole family set about restoring it. (Jane’s diaries for the period typically refer to ‘mixing two hundredweight of cement for Daddy’).

All five Waller children emerged from this background with artistic temperaments: Edmund is a landscape architect, Lynda a stained glass artist, Vanessa a potter, and Geoffrey specialises in providing the lighting for major architectural and artistic projects in New Zealand.

Jane herself never stops her search for innovation and intends to divide her time between producing ceramics, writing fiction, working in her garden and allotment and travelling abroad.