Mary Jane Lundy grew up in the small town of St. George in New Brunswick. As a young girl she spent many summers playing on the Bay of Fundy shores. Some of her early work experience consisted of jobs in the local tuna factory and the sardine factory where she grew up. After high school she worked at the Biological Station in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. The associations with the sea and its surroundings have greatly influenced her work.

Mary Jane creates ceramic fish wall hangings, sculptured fish houses stuffed with fish, and more recently bird sculptures. She uses white and red grogged earthenware low fire clays and coloured slips as well as colourful glazes. Her subjects are limited to the sea life found in the Nova Scotia waters of the Atlantic Ocean and its shorelines. Other forms inspired by the sea, such as tide pools, grottos and whirlpools are incorporated into her work.

The ceramic sculptures of fish houses are stuffed full of cod and other species of fish such as haddock, sole, and red perch using a plaster cast made from the actual fish caught by local fisherman. a time…” theme when fish were abundant. Titles such as “Fred’s Sole Shack”, “Mildred’s Cod House,” create a nostalgic awareness of the “once upon a a time…” theme when fish were abundant.

Mary Jane Lundy is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has a BFA major in Ceramics.