Randolph Rigets has been making art in one form or another for more than fifty years and has had the opportunity to study under many well known and respected artists: Tony Onley, Roy Arden, Jeff Wall, Roy Kiyooka, Gu Xiong, Gary Kennedy, Phil McCrum, Barbara Zeigler, Alberto Replanski, Marina Roy, and Manuel Pina.

Rigets studied classical drawing, painting, sculpting, printmaking, and photography at the Nelson School of Fine Art, Malaspina College, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and the University of British Columbia where he earned a BFA Degree.

His paintings have been influenced by the work of American Artists, Robert Ryman and Brice Marden, in that he is both a minimalist and is also sensitive to the shape of his painted strokes. When asked about his artistic philosophy he said, “I think that art should give the viewer something new and something that has not been experienced before; it needs to be somehow unique and fresh.”

Rigets works to create a build-up on the painting's surface by applying one thin layer of paint over another. He sometimes leaves remnants, shadows of what has come before, fingerprints of the painting's history traced over the surface of the painting. He seems careful about the application of the stroke, the location, the amount of paint applied, and even how he breathes while applying pressure of the brush to the surface of the support. 

When asked about what he hopes to accomplish by showing these predominately white paintings, he responded, “We all live in the realm of illusion where we mix what is real with what we think is real; as viewers we become fixed in what we think we see. This is primarily because our minds have become overrun with the many thousands of images, we see 'in a flash', on a daily basis. Blank space is being threatened with extinction as advertising overwhelmingly defeats it.”

Rigets continued by saying, “I hope, that upon discovering my paintings, the viewer will pause in their routine, take a breath, and rest their mind. It is just paint on canvas.”