Jane Hamlyn (born 1940) is an English

studio potter Studio pottery is pottery made by professional and amateur ceramists working alone or in small groups, making unique items or short runs, especially those that are not intended for daily use as crockery. Typically, all stages of manufacture are ...

known for her functional

salt glaze Salt-glaze or salt glaze pottery is pottery, usually stoneware, with a ceramic glaze of glossy, translucent and slightly orange-peel-like texture which was formed by throwing common salt into the kiln during the higher temperature part of the fi ...

pottery. Born in

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, London, Hamlyn initially trained as a nurse at

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London. She studied pottery part-time at Putney Adult Education Centre, before attending

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(1972–1974) where she was taught by

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. In 1975, she set up Millfield Pottery Workshop near

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. Hamlyn is credited with discovering the green colour that arises when painting a titanium wash over a blue

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and in 1999 she was awarded the European Saltglaze Prize. Along with Walter Keeler she is considered a pioneer of the salt glaze revival. Hamlyn is a Fellow and former chair of the

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. Her work is displayed at the

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London, in the

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Permanent Collection, and the

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ceramics collection at the

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. Hamlyn was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to pottery and ceramics.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamlyn, Jane 1940 births Living people Artists from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets English ceramicists English nurses English potters English women ceramicists Members of the Order of the British Empire People from Whitechapel Women potters