Rick Janson Art Studio

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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.

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  • Runner Up

    Runner Up

    Ah, so close. Art competitions are a way to get your work out there. In the open category, for artists aged 55+, I came second today at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. Always great to see one’s work in an established gallery. Of course, these opportunities are a way to reach out to the…

  • Oh Canada Project

    Oh Canada Project

    It wasn’t long after signing up with my local art association that I got a call for entry from the Station Gallery in Whitby. “Great,” I thought, this would be a chance to show locally. “How much time do I have?” It was Tuesday. The deadline to submit on-line a digital image and form was…

  • Here We Are At Last

    Here We Are At Last

    Is there such a thing as a re-emerging artist? In the early 1980s I was showing at two downtown Ottawa galleries, one of them embedded in the Simpson’s Department Store. At the time I was creating work using technical pens and prismacolor pencils. Much of it involved mind-numbing little dots on the page that resolved…