Rick Janson Art Studio

My Art Journal

Category: Process

  • Plasticine Flowers

    I’m probably pigeon-holed as a landscape painter. But in the past two years I have made an effort to stray outside my comfort zone by taking on some new genres, or at the very least to explore genres I haven’t visited in a long time (eg. portraiture). I calculated it would aid the effort to…

  • Searching for an audience

    What’s the point of making art if nobody ever looks at it? Yesterday I spoke about four big changes in my work within the last year. This is the fifth: starting the process of developing an audience. Sure, over the years people have collected my work (including the above piece) but I’ve never been able…

  • Madly off in all directions

    There were a few things that happened within the last year that made a big difference to my art making. The first was about commitment. When I first retired from my day job, I seemed to have gone madly off in all directions. I wanted to travel more. I wanted to improve my guitar and…