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: Reworking

  • An Elusive Portrait

    An Elusive Portrait

    There was a time when I thought being a portrait artist would be desirable. Get to meet new and interesting people, rise to the challenge of capturing their personality on canvas and at the same time make good art that the sitter or commissioner would cherish. Ha, if only. Getting a likeness is really the…

  • Recycling 2

    Recycling 2

    I started this painting in 2015. It was from a photograph I took at a family reunion the previous summer in New Brunswick. At 36″ x 48″ it was extremely awkward to work on in my tiny shed studio. I never got very far with it at that time beyond a very loose rough-in, getting…

  • Recycling

    Recycling

    What to do with a painting that’s a little meh? There are numerous paintings that I undertook that I thought would be amazing when I applied the first few brush strokes. Somehow they often just get away from me and get shuffled somewhere in the back of my studio often never to be seen again.…