Meet Anne Rothenstein, Jackson’s Art Prize 2025 Guest Judge
Artist Anne Rothenstein, RWA Academician represented by Stephen Friedman, is a Guest Judge for Jackson’s Art Prize 2025. In this interview, she discusses the transformative impact of gallery representation on her career, the physical feeling that great art evokes, and why originality and obsession are key to great work. Interview with Anne Rothenstein Josephine: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your artistic practice? Anne: I’m Anne Rothenstein and I’m a painter. I would describe myself as a conventional painter in oils, but I’m untrained, so I’ve had to teach myself how to use oil paint and that’s been a part of my whole practice. I paint on wood as I don’t like canvas and I like the grain of the wood, which often comes into the work. I come from a family of artists, but that doesn’t necessarily inform my work. I stopped painting for quite a long time and spent 10 years being an actress. So when I came back to it, I was completely out of the art world and had to start teaching myself how to paint again. It’s been extraordinary, interesting, and exciting. I’m still learning, who isn’t learning? I’m …
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