Eva Jancke-Björk

In 1910, she married the physician Karl Gustaf Adolf Björk (1885–1919) with whom she had five children: Strindar Leif (1907), Arne (1910), Ann Eivor Margareta (1912), Lennart (1914) and Kaj Åke (1918).

[1][2] She initially worked as a textile artist, creating patterns for Licium and Handarbetets vänner, and as an illustrator for the magazine Ord och Bild.

[1] But it was increasingly in ceramics that Jancke-Björk developed her design work, first for the Rörstrand porcelain factory (1915–1921), then for Sankt Erik Lervarufabriker (1921–1925) and finally for Bo Fajans (1925–1956).

[1][2] After her husband died in 1919, she opened her own pottery in Mölndal, employing the potter Hugo Säfström from the local handicrafts school as well as other assistants.

Her early work included tea and coffee services, later designing bowls, vases, tableware and ceramic lampstands decorated with cornflowers or birds.