Having worked informally with clay since 1978, Jane Crick commenced study full time at The Canberra School of Art Ceramics Workshop in 1987. She graduated with Associate Diploma of Visual Arts (Ceramics) in 1989 and has been potting professionally since that time. Her work, often geometric in derivation and with textured and tactile surfaces, is handbuilt using pinching and slabbing techniques and usually low-fired. She joined the Inner City Clayworkers Gallery Co-operative in 1999, is a Craft Australia professional affiliate, Craftmark accredited and an active member of the Canberra Potters' Society Inc. Jane has been teaching ceramics with the Canberra Potters' Society Inc since 1992 and is also contracted to teach at centres for continuing education in Canberra. Recently she has led several workshops for students, other potters and art teachers, and she organises and leads annual "Hot to Pot" five day workshops for potters of all levels.

"Recurring themes in my work can be directly attributed to periods spent in Uganda and in Papua New Guinea. I find the visual and cultural textures and contrasts of those countries are indelibly fixed in my memory and strongly influence the decoration and firing of my work.
"I like to take very geometric shapes and, basically, "mess them up" by shape modification and the surface treatment. Inspired by my experience and memories of tropical landscape I began making slab-built forms subtly textured with a glaze I developed myself. The white "Arc", "Lunar Vase" and "Con-tainer" forms are still slowly evolving and each series is slightly different from the one before."