Rick Ducommun is a Canadian who still finds drawing and painting joyful and full of surprises. He is Calgary born, trained and art educated in Alberta. His works reflect the engineering and financial aspects of his life, as much as his work in engineering and financial businesses reflected his artistic and non linear artists view of patterns, nuances and contrasts of business. He logged two full time years of art fundamentals at Alberta College of Art and holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts degree with distinction from the University of Alberta. Rick also attended Montana State University full time in the Management and Industrial Engineering program, then earned his Masters of Business degree in specialized program located between the financial and art districts in San Francisco.

He personally sponsored art appreciation events at the Glenbow Museum, for the Art Dealer’s Association of Canada, the Paul Kuhn Gallery in Calgary, as well as the Route 22 Artist Collective’s Gallery in Cochrane. Rick has been written about by Warren Harbeck of Cochrane, and Philip K Tompkins in Denver. He had several one artist showings in Cochrane, participated in group shows in Edmonton, Penticton, Calgary, and in Cochrane including at the Route 22 Gallery.

Rick’s works illustrated books by Philip K Tompkins and James R Barker. Individual pieces of Ricks work are in the homes of three academics, two NASA employees, a US Navy Commander, an American Forest Fire Chief, the General Manager of Royal American Shows in Florida, a Manhattan artist, stock dog trainers in Kansas, an engineer in San Diego, and other artists and dog trainers across North America. He also donated works to University of Alberta, SAIT, the St. Francis Shelter for the Homeless in Denver, and the Stockman’s Museum in Cochrane.

He enjoys talking about art and sharing stories with anybody patient enough to listen.