Janet Deboos – Hybrid surface-culture, techniques and materials

Hi, I’m Janet DeBoos, and in this workshop, you’re going to learn:

  • My design philosophy & techniques
  • Focusing on how to make & use Terra sigillata
  • And how to combine that with stencils, transfers, wax resist.

You Get My Workshop:
Watch my 1-Hour prerecorded workshop video and Q&A.

You get my Equipment List PDF
Here I detail the exact process I used to create my work – shown below.

Join my Live Q&A
Watch my Q&A where I answered questions about my process.

You Get Lifetime Access to the Replays
The workshop Q&A will be recorded, and you will have lifetime access to it. You can watch it online, or download it to your device to watch offline at any time.


About Janet DeBoos

Honorary Senior Lecturer (2019- present), (Emeritus Fellow 2015-2018), Australian National University School of Art & Design.

Janet was previously Head of Ceramics at ANU for over fifteen years (1998-2015), Head of Ceramics at her alma mater, East Sydney College of TAFE (now National Art School) 1979/80, and ran a production pottery (Brindabella Pottery) for almost twenty years in between.

She was a Council Member, International Academy of Ceramics, (Australasian and African representative 2012-2020) and has been a member of the Academy since 2003.

She is also a Professional Accredited Member of the Australian Capital Territory Craft Association,  

Exhibiting member of The Australian Ceramic Association, and an artist member of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).

After completing a science degree at Sydney University (1969), she studied ceramics at The National Art School -then East Sydney Technical College (1970/71). She also has a postgraduate Diploma in Education and studied Italian & Fine Arts at Sydney University.

Janet has conducted workshops/given demonstrations in colleges and universities, crafts councils and pottery groups in all states of Australia New Zealand, mainland United States and Hawai’i, Canada, UK, China, Japan and Korea; been an invited speaker at NCECA (National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts) conferences in Colorado, Ohio, Portland, Minneapolis and California; also delivered papers at most Australian National Ceramic Conferences; co-chaired and was program organizer at 8th National Ceramics Conference (Australian Ceramics Triennale) in 2015.

She has written two best-selling books on glazes (Glazes for Australian Potters and More Glazes for Australian Potters), co-authored Handbook for Australian Potters, and has written numerous articles for Australian and International Ceramics journals on ceramic art practice, education and glaze technology. Her work has appeared in those same publications, and DeBoos is also represented in Collectors Guide to Australian and New Zealand Ceramics by Janet Mansfield, (Australia), Porcelain by Jack Doherty (UK) Ceramic Design by Peter Lane (UK) and Porcelain Masters (USA), The Pot Book by Edmund de Waal (UK) amongst others.

She has regularly exhibited in Australia and overseas (UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Spain, South Africa, Canada, United States, Korea and China) and has work in major permanent public collections in Australia, UK, USA, Canada, China, Taiwan, Belgium, and New Zealand.

Website: www.janetdeboos.com

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