Lenka Rubenstein was born in Eastern Bohemia. She studied linguistics at Charles University, completed internships in the United Kingdom and the US in the field of journalism, and then worked as a radio editor, contributed to various periodicals, and as a translator. She was also involved in the non-profit sector in the CR and the US and collaborated on several film and television documentaries. From the mid-1990s, she lived alternately in the Czech Republic and the United States. Since 2011, she has lived in Vrané nad Vltavou, near Prague.
Painting began as her hobby during childhood. At the instigation of friends, she organized her first portrait exhibition in Prague in 2000. Although she is primarily a self-taught painter, she began to receive commissions and participate in art competitions, and her portraits were selected for and exhibited in a number of juried exhibitions throughout the United States (in Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Wyoming). In the Czech Republic, recent solo exhibitions were held at Hotel Mozart, Restaurace Mon Ami, and the American Center in Prague, and in the Old School in Vrané nad Vltavou. Over the past 10 years, her portraits have been selected five times for the semi-finals of the prestigious international portrait competition organized by the National Portrait Gallery in London.
In addition to portraiture, she also became attracted to landscape and seascape painting some time ago, which was originally intended as a distraction, but soon grew into a much larger activity. Most of these paintings were initially seaside scenes from the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, where she and her husband often vacationed and where they were regularly exhibited. Currently, she focuses on landscapes from her home region along the Vltava river, on pictures from her travels, and on various commissioned works.
I love painting
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