Jude studied Fine Art, and became a potter when she married John Jelfs. Over the last few years, she has returned to her roots, combining pottery with painting and sculpture in her current work.

Her ceramics range from flat, almost two-dimensional, slab-built vessels, in earthenware or porcelain, to 3-dimensional stoneware pieces. Some pieces are made in editions or series. Others are one-offs.

Jude also works in bronze.

Her work is on show at galleries all over the UK, as well as in the studio at the Cotswold Pottery.

She is a Fellow of the Craft Potters’ Association (CPA).

Each piece starts with a drawing from life, from a life model. I draw and redraw the figure until I have a shape that I think will work as a pot, usually a jug. From the drawing, I roll and cut clay slabs, and shape them, work on them until I have the form I want. I let this form dry for a day or so, and then paint many layers of coloured liquid clay (slips) onto the piece. I burnish the surface, and draw through one layer of slip to expose the layer beneath. The pot is then allowed to dry, fired to 1000 C (bisque) glazed inside and fired again to 1120 C. The porcelain pieces are fired higher - to 1300 Celsius in a reduction gas kiln.