Category: Early Work
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Some good news that is a little embarrassing. It got little attention in Ottawa’s fall budget but will impact artists going forward. Canadian artists have been fighting for it for years. In the fall budget the Federal government has finally signalled that it will adopt Artist Resale Rights — visual artists (or their estates) will…
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Day lillies are great when they bloom. Problem is, if you ever change your mind, they are next to impossible to get rid of. They also spread like crazy. And if they are anywhere near a pool — as ours are — when the blooms fade they tend to fall off into the water and…
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I don’t know why I chose to do this drawing back in the mid-1980s. Being a long-suffering Maple Leafs fan, I must have choked colouring in those red Habs jerseys. I think it may be the largest drawing I ever did using a rapidograph pen and Prismacolor pencils. Unfortunately back then I didn’t get the…
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I was walking my dog when I got the idea. We were tramping along a stream in a wilderness area amid the autumn colour. The way the water flowed over and around the rocks (and the dog), it looked very abstract to me as it reflected back the colour of the forest. I thought about…
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I don’t recall how I ever found out about it. For three years I participated in an event called The Little Art Show which raised money for the Riverdale Art Walk. Once registered to participate, artists got sent a small 7″ x 9″ canvas and a deadline to send or bring it back, presumably, with…
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I used to walk by here all the time when I grew up in the south end of Ottawa. The marina was on Mooney’s Bay, somewhere between the beach and the Hog’s Back falls, where the Rideau Canal picked up for its final run through to the Ottawa River. At the time in the mid-to-late…
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There was a lot of renewed attention paid to celebrated Canadian pianist Glenn Gould after he passed away in 1982. One of the biographical details I recalled was his habit of driving around while humming a Petula Clark song in his car. He actually did a radio documentary about this, documenting a drive to Thunder…
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Prior to moving to Oshawa in 2002, my only experience of the city was hurtling by on the 401 at a hundred kilometres per hour (or so). I always remembered seeing the onion dome of the church at the corner of Ritson and Bloor from the recessed highway. I initially landed a job in downtown…
Rick Janson Art Studio 