Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Lily Rose Fine is a British-Canadian Painter based in Vancouver. Her work explores emotional intimacy and mythic symbolism through the depiction of collected ephemera and the familiar faces of loved ones. She visits us in the Jackson’s Studio to speak about her practice – which blends influences like mid-century horror films, modern art, and folklore to create haunting and otherworldly artworks.
0:00 “I do think about this sort of middle ground, this kind of threshold between the dream world and reality”
0:24 “I'm interested in the kind of spirit that objects hold, also paintings hold”
0:58 “Colour is my main love in painting”
1:33 Introduction
1:55 “I think the National Portrait Gallery, particularly, was the one that I went in, and I was like, this is what I have to do”
3:43 “With oil paint, it's a little bit like ‘I'm a real artist’”
4:29 “I do the under layers in acrylic, because I feel like I can think through the image faster”
5:06 “I wanted the texture of icing”
6:02 “One of the teachers, Lauchie Reid, was someone who just made oil painting seem like no big deal”
7:55 “I really felt like I needed to give my painting, this thing that I loved my whole life, and kind of put on the back burner, a real shot”
8:42 “I love things that possess a lot of power”
9:58 “I like using images that, for me, hold a lot of potent feelings, but could be completely articulated differently by somebody else”
10:32 “I've started really focusing in on Eryn, because I know her so deeply, more than most people, but there's still this level of distance, in that we're platonic best friends”
11:45 “You’ll never feel good enough, you shouldn’t feel good enough, because you probably got, hopefully, another like 70 years of painting in your life”
13:35 “I cannot live without a giant tube of Indian yellow…it's like working with caramel”
15:35 “It was just an intense program that meant that I was constantly drawing”
17:20 “There is a strange ambiguity in the desire to know”
19:21 “I want to try to get better at responding to what the painting really needs”
20:06 “Drawing is a really fundamental thing”
21:37 “Some of my favourite paintings that I've ever done, the surface of them have been paintings that I have done over old paintings”
23:24 “I love a disgusting old brush”
24:26 “If things are going wrong, it might just be that I need to go home, or eat a meal, or hang out with friends”
25:22 “Partly the strategy for not overworking something is that I try to have a surface that isn't blank”
26:37 “I'm making them into this object that is just to be observed and not touched”
29:05 “I like to force myself to not look at things or consume anything in the studio that is not going to feel related”
33:11 “I think I'm most inspired by film”
34:40 “I am very inspired by vintage photography and some of the tricks that you can do with that medium”
35:14 “Painters that have particularly stuck with me over time, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Ben Shahn”
36:58 “You don’t have to overthink trying to be authentic”
38:59 Credits
Shop Art Materials on our website: jacksonsart.com/colour?utm_campaign=ain_lily_rose_fine&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_content=youtube_social_organic_video_to_ecom
Read the article on our blog: jacksonsart.com/blog/2025/12/17/artist-insights-lily-rose-fine/_?utm_campaign=ain_lily_rose_fine&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_content=youtube_social_organic_video_to_blog
Follow Lily on Instagram: instagram.com/lilyfine/?hl=en
Music courtesy of YouTube Audio Library. The music was inspired by the songs Lily and the Jackson's Team listened to while painting during the shoot.
Lily Rose Fine is a British-Canadian Painter based in Vancouver. Her work explores emotional intimacy and mythic symbolism through the depiction of collected ephemera and the familiar faces of loved ones. She visits us in the Jackson’s Studio to speak about her practice – which blends influences like mid-century horror films, modern art, and folklore to create haunting and otherworldly artworks.
0:00 “I do think about this sort of middle ground, this kind of threshold between the dream world and reality”
0:24 “I'm interested in the kind of spirit that objects hold, also paintings hold”
0:58 “Colour is my main love in painting”
1:33 Introduction
1:55 “I think the National Portrait Gallery, particularly, was the one that I went in, and I was like, this is what I have to do”
3:43 “With oil paint, it's a little bit like ‘I'm a real artist’”
4:29 “I do the under layers in acrylic, because I feel like I can think through the image faster”
5:06 “I wanted the texture of icing”
6:02 “One of the teachers, Lauchie Reid, was someone who just made oil painting seem like no big deal”
7:55 “I really felt like I needed to give my painting, this thing that I loved my whole life, and kind of put on the back burner, a real shot”
8:42 “I love things that possess a lot of power”
9:58 “I like using images that, for me, hold a lot of potent feelings, but could be completely articulated differently by somebody else”
10:32 “I've started really focusing in on Eryn, because I know her so deeply, more than most people, but there's still this level of distance, in that we're platonic best friends”
11:45 “You’ll never feel good enough, you shouldn’t feel good enough, because you probably got, hopefully, another like 70 years of painting in your life”
13:35 “I cannot live without a giant tube of Indian yellow…it's like working with caramel”
15:35 “It was just an intense program that meant that I was constantly drawing”
17:20 “There is a strange ambiguity in the desire to know”
19:21 “I want to try to get better at responding to what the painting really needs”
20:06 “Drawing is a really fundamental thing”
21:37 “Some of my favourite paintings that I've ever done, the surface of them have been paintings that I have done over old paintings”
23:24 “I love a disgusting old brush”
24:26 “If things are going wrong, it might just be that I need to go home, or eat a meal, or hang out with friends”
25:22 “Partly the strategy for not overworking something is that I try to have a surface that isn't blank”
26:37 “I'm making them into this object that is just to be observed and not touched”
29:05 “I like to force myself to not look at things or consume anything in the studio that is not going to feel related”
33:11 “I think I'm most inspired by film”
34:40 “I am very inspired by vintage photography and some of the tricks that you can do with that medium”
35:14 “Painters that have particularly stuck with me over time, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Ben Shahn”
36:58 “You don’t have to overthink trying to be authentic”
38:59 Credits
Shop Art Materials on our website: jacksonsart.com/colour?utm_campaign=ain_lily_rose_fine&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_content=youtube_social_organic_video_to_ecom
Read the article on our blog: jacksonsart.com/blog/2025/12/17/artist-insights-lily-rose-fine/_?utm_campaign=ain_lily_rose_fine&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_content=youtube_social_organic_video_to_blog
Follow Lily on Instagram: instagram.com/lilyfine/?hl=en
Music courtesy of YouTube Audio Library. The music was inspired by the songs Lily and the Jackson's Team listened to while painting during the shoot.
