Jack grew up in the rolling countryside of the southwest of England and through his early career based in London as a travel photographer he had the opportunity to explore the globe extensively. His instinctive sensitivity to design and scultpture has its roots in a family lineage of adventurous collectors, a keen photographic eye, and a fascination with the natural world.

Although Jack has travelled afar, he has always with one foot firmly planted on his family’s nature reserve in the Mpumalanga mountains of South Africa, where he now lives with his wife Dominique, and architect, and where the Harem Living Studio resides.

His exploration of and fascination with the natural world in which he is immersed forms a fundamental basis for much of his design and artwork, inspired by the endless organic forms, colour and motion which abound.

Jack’s foundation in ceramics came through classes with the well-known Lowveld potter Antjie Newtown, and he continues to explore methods and techniques from different areas and epochs in his work.