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A NSCAD alumni, Rick Janson studied under Riduan Tompkins, Nancy Edell, Ed Porter and Medrie McPhee before graduating with his BFA in 1987. He is the past editor of Visual Arts News Magazine (Visual Arts Nova Scotia) as well as briefly the editor of the NSCAD Alumni News. He has exhibited at numerous venues as well as had a short film shown at the Atlantic Film Festival in 1998. His studio is in Oshawa, Ontario.

Category: New Work

  • All ready for… 2023

    All ready for… 2023

    Some artists do not like themed group shows. Some insist that they do what they do and that’s it. They don’t feel that a gallery, nor anybody else, should dictate the content of their art. I have the opposite view — these themed shows are often an opportunity to leave your comfort zone and try…

  • Little Stories

    Little Stories

    When I was studying at the University of Ottawa I used to regularly cross the Rideau canal to the National Gallery of Canada, which was then located in a former office tower on Elgin Street. Among the works I spent a particular amount of time with were those of the 18th Century Venetian painter Canaletto…