Jane Seymour is a ceramist, specialising in handbuilt smokefired work. Born in 1954, she grew up on a farm in Wales with her mother who was a potter and illustrator, and her father - a writer.

She ran a small craft gallery where she painted on silk and wood and made clothes, before turning to clay. In 1994 Jane moved to Co. Clare and built a house and ceramic studio. From here she began teaching pottery classes. She also teaches feltmaking, glass painting and lino printing.

Surrounded by the rugged landscapes and wild nature of the West of Ireland, some of her spare time is spent observing and sketching, in particular the dynamics of a particular community of crows living on the coast; fascinated by their individual characters and behavior patterns she often portrays this in her work.
She makes strong slab-built bowls and forms, sometimes abstract in shape, with a controlled and defined surface decoration, inspired by her interest for the figurative, mainly birdlife and the human form, working from her studies and life drawings. She draws and engraves directly into the surface of the unfired clay, applying layers of oxides and stains which are re-applied between firings. As well as working from her own life drawings and bird sketches, her main artistic influencers are Modigliani, Gauguin, and Picasso among other great artists.

Jane is a selected member of the Crafts Potters Association, London UK; a member of Ceramics Ireland, and a member of Portfolio Ireland. Her work is in private collections in Ireland; UK; Antwerp; and USA, as well as by the OPW Ireland. She has exhibited in Ireland, Wales, and UK.

In 2022 her work was included for display as one of Irelands selected ceramists for the Fourth Triennialle in Faenza, Italy. Also in 2022 she was awarded the Ceramics Ireland Professional Practice Award.