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.

Category: Process

  • Searching for an audience

    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

    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…