Jean Meyer, Israeli, Ceramicist, born in Britain, 1924-2000.

 Jean Meyer was born in 1924 in London, England. 

Her parents, Hannah and Abraham Davis, 

immigrated to England from Eastern Europe to London, 

where the father opened a watch and jewelry store.

 As a child she was sent to a boarding school in western England. 

During World War II she worked in the military industry. 

After the war she studied art and studied painting. 

In 1949 she visited Israel and served as a volunteer in Kibbutz 

.Yas'ur and Kfar Menahem

In 1951 she married and immigrated to Israel with her husband 

and settled in Kibbutz Ein Ha-Shofet. In the early 1960s she set up 

a studio in the kibbutz. In addition to her artistic work 

she was active in the kibbutz life. At first she worked as 

a plantation worker. She later worked on decorating

backdrops for ceremonies and holidays

Meyer's early work, from the 1950s' was influenced by

English ceramics. 

These works were done in a local reddish and covered

with angov. During the 1960s' she began to

create limescale and use glaze.

 Later she also began to use fires such as burning

smoke, or sagger as well as porcelain.

The tools and sculptures she created 

use geometrical shapes, which have been refined

over the years to models inspired by nature.

Studies:

Art School, London, England

School of Art, Chelsea, England

ca. 1949 Ceramics, Cambridge School of Art,

London, England 

Teaching:

University of Haifa, Haifa

Awards:

1978 Product Design Award, The Israeli Design Institute

 Honorable mention, World Triennale for Small Ceramics, 

Zagreb, Yugoslavia,1984