Richard Janson
Painter
Site # 22 |
8 Myrtle Road, Myrtle |
Artists at this site: Pat Neal and |
“My paintings are stories old while travelling globe. We are the landscape. We also change it for better and worse ”
Rick Janson describes himself as a re-emerging artist. He never stopped painting since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1987, but he has recently recommitted a full-time practice that has included participating in numerous group shows.
Studying under Riduan Tompkins, Janson recognizes that his work stands on the shoulders of those who went before us. Tompkins taught his classes that they are recipients of a line of teaching that goes back to Walter Sickert and Edgar Degas. His work has at times veered into abstraction, although in recent years he has found his own style that is both realistic yet at the same time celebrates the more abstract qualities of painting.
Janson is the past editor of Visual Arts News (Visual Arts Nova Scotia) as well as the NSCAD Alumni News. He had a short film exhibited at the Atlantic Film Festival in 1998. His studio is in a converted shed in his Oshawa backyard, where he often encounters wildlife travelling back and forth to the house.
