Priscilla Janes

After graduating from the University of Colorado in 1970 with a B.A. in Fine Arts and a teaching certificate, Priscilla began working with clay. Specializing in printmaking during University, clay was a new medium for her to explore. Basically a self-taught potter, enriched by numerous courses and workshops, Priscilla produces one-of-a-kind clay pieces using both electric and sawdust kilns, and balances her work between functional pottery and decorative sawdust work.

Priscilla Janes

Priscilla has been an art educator/instructor since graduating from University, having taught with the Enriched Art Program for the Calgary School Board and at The Wildflower Art Centre and North Mount Pleasant Art Centre in Calgary. In Yellowknife, where she lived for 14 years, she taught multi-media art classes for children with the Northern Homecrafters and Kids Unlimited, as well as pottery classes for children and adults at the Yellowknife Guild of Crafts. She also teaches private pottery lessons in her home studio.

Priscilla has also been an archaeological draftsperson and illustrator in remote wilderness areas including Sudan, the Mackenzie River Valley and the Thelon Game Sanctuary of the Northwest Territories. She has a keen interest in botany, especially the wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains. The natural world is her continuous source of inspiration with vines, leaves and flowers often decorating her clay work. Much of her free time is spent gardening, hiking and cross-country skiing.

Priscilla exhibits annually with the Pinebrook Group Show and Sale in Calgary and sells work at The Aven Gallery, The Canmore Hospital Art Gallery and the Canmore Artists and Artisans Guild in Canmore, the Whyte Museum Shop in Banff and the Full Moon Gallery in Bragg Creek. She also does commissioned work. She lives in Canmore, Alberta with her husband, Bob and they have two adult children, Erica and Peter.

Please contact Priscilla at:

1-403-678-2117