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Janet Larkman – April Featured Artist

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  • VANS
  • April 1, 2014
One Billion Rising, 20″x48″, oil on canvas; Janet Larkman, 2014

Janet Larkman

My mother has a yellowed drawing I did in kindergarten. I’m wearing a beret at an easel — ‘when I grow up I want to be an artist’ is scrawled at the bottom. I attended an art-focused high school in Toronto, where I studied with a professional abstract painter and had my first gallery show. I completed a BFA at NSCAD, including a year at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. I work mainly as a painter with a 3-D sensibility, incorporating materials like metal, stone, glass, wood, and clay. I have always engaged in installation art, often integrating paintings into installations.

A vital role

I served on the VANS Board for five years, including as President, witnessing firsthand the importance of VANS in advocacy, professional developme...

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