Blue Walla

Blue Walla is inspired by antique Delftware pottery, specifically the famous Meissen “Blue Onion” pattern. The sculpture’s three medallions depict the local harvest of onions, grapes, and wheat. Blue Walla, made of oil paint with a gloss sealer, is located on the plaza at 3rd & Main near the Thinking Frog sculpture.

The Artist

Jane F. Roberts

For the past forty years Jane Roberts has worked in a variety of mediums, producing ceramics, murals, needlepoint canvasses, painted furniture, children’s book illustrations, and paintings in oil, watercolor, acrylic, and pastel.

She first studied painting at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later at Keene State College in Keene, NH and the New Hampshire League of Arts Center in Sharon, NH.

Jane moved to Walla Walla five years ago and opened Windward Studio with her husband, where they produce and display her ceramic sculpture and his wheel thrown pottery. She continues to paint murals including several on display at the Children's Museum of Walla Walla.

Jane says that Sweet Onions on Parade is “a great way for me to give something of myself back to a community which is really beginning to feel like home.”