Jason Rose

“The inextinguishable light”

“For me, beauty is about truth – seeing the true heart of another person being expressed or seeing a beautiful sunset or hearing an exquisite piece of music and experiencing an opening of truth inside one’s own heart and mind. A beautiful person is one that’s real and authentic and not restricted or obscured by convention or masks”

Jason Rose is a London-based artist specialising in portraits. He’s always been heavily influenced by the surrealists and the combination of exploring dreams, psychology and the unconscious together with a high degree of technical figurative painting skill. His work uses both realism and impressionistic techniques. His inspiration comes from painting the people he loves and the weirdness of quantum mechanics. Environmentalism and fantasy have always been areas close to his heart since a very early age. Growing up in Chingford with his younger brother and Jewish parents, he experienced antisemitic bullying from an early age. He takes pride in being Jewish in a cultural sense, even though his spiritual path has taken a different route.

Jason Rose is one of the artists for the ‘A Sky of Stars’ exhibition curated by Polina Angelova.