Janice Tchalenko
Janice Tchalenko was born in Rugby, Warwickshire in 1942. She studied at Putney School of Art and Harrow School of Art. In the early 1970s she started teach at the Croydon School of Art and the Camberwell School of Art. She specialized in undecorated domestic stoneware and developed a reputation as a highly competent thrower.
In the late 1970s she discovered she also had a talent for decoration and started making high-fired stoneware with bright and colourful designs. She became a tutor at the Royal College of Art in 1981. She is now a fellow of the Royal College of Art and has had countless exhibitions including permanent displays at the Victoria & Albert Museum as well as major venues across the world.

