Artist Janis Casco Blayer

Janis Casco Blayer has studied in oil, water color, zinc plate etching, bronze sculpture, and several other mediums. She studied art at Washington State University and with a number of nationally and internationally recognized artists including Ernest Caviness, Michael Clements, Leon Holmes (Australia), John Wilson (Australia), Joe Paquet, Suzie Baker, and Morgan Samuel Price among others.

These days Janis mostly paints in oil with palette knife. Subject matter has varied over the years but Janis' favorites are people, animals, landscapes, and local folk.

Janis moved from the Northwest to Maui in 1979 and resides in Lahaina with her husband Jeff and two cats.