Jo Connell
Jo Connell graduated from North Staffordshire Polytechnic in 1972. An accomplished hand-builder and tutor, she is a professional member of the Craft Potters Association.
Jo has worked for many years in schools and colleges and is an experienced tutor of all aspects of ceramics. She now concentrates on making ceramics in her studio in Leicestershire. She exhibits widely in the UK and abroad and is a member of the Craft Potters Association and of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.
Jo is known particularly for using coloured clays to hand-build sculptural vessels. She combines subtle colour and texture to produce surfaces of an intriguingly tactile nature and her ideas owe much to the natural world. Interpretations of landscape, seascape, rock strata and plant structure can be clearly recognized in her work, which explores many fascinating qualities of clay.
She is the author of “The Potters Guide to Ceramic Surfaces”, a practical guide to decorating, glazing and firing studio ceramics, published in 2002 in the UK and now translated into six languages. Her second book, second book ”Colouring Clay” was published in 2007, in the A&C Black Ceramics Handbook series.
