Jane Bruce is an independent artist, educator and arts project manager.  She studied at the Royal College of Art in London and later emigrated to the United States.  Her recent design series, Vase, Bottle, Bowl, is deeply rooted in the history of the decorative or applied arts and the examination of the object.  “I am interested in the ‘essential’ object, reducing the vessel to its central and fundamental parts and attributes. If I were to pick an adjective to describe this work, it might be 'formal’.”