Jan Green studied art at the East Sydney Technical College and then worked in the animated film industry before taking up pottery. She was one of the graduates from the Ceramics Certificate course at Brookvale Technical College who set up the Clay Things Potters' Gallery in Dee Why, NSW, in 1983. She moved to Taralga, NSW, in 1994, where she has been strongly involved in environmental concerns. Her mark is an impressed 'JG'.