Pauline Roche
Pauline Roche was born in London
but grew up in Australia from the age of seven. In 1995 she moved
to the United States. She lived for a number of years in Boston,
and also in Tucson, Arizona, and has recently settled in San
Diego, California with her husband and two children.
Paulines work has
won a number of awards in juried exhibitions, including the Gold
Medal of Honor at the Audubon Artists Annual exhibition, New
York and others in exhibitions at the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe
Art Club, the Salmagundi Club and the American Artists Professional
League, New York. Her work was selected as a Top 100 Finalist
in the Art Renewal Center's International ARC Salon (2007 and
in 2011-2012).
She is listed in Whos
Who in America and Whos Who of American Women. A feature
article on Pauline's work and technique, 'Contemplating the Past,
Painting the Present' appeared in American Artist magazine (May
2007).
Pauline's figurative
pieces usually portray people in distinctive settings. She loves
to capture the unique gestures of people in quiet contemplation
and reveal a connection between the people and their surroundings.
In particular, she looks for connections between her figures
and art. Museum settings with paintings and sculpture, historical
buildings with grand architecture, people involved in dance and
musical performance are consistent themes in her figurative work.
In addition to her figurative work, Pauline paints still life,
and plein air landscapes. She believes in continually painting
a variety of subject matter, enjoying the varied challenges and
stimulation that different subjects offer.
Pauline's early art training
was in the studios of practicing artists in Australia, where
she received extensive training in traditional painting. Her
subsequent art education has included studies at the School of
the Museum of Fine Art, Boston and The Florence Academy of Art,
Italy.
Pauline has exhibited
her work annually in Boston since 1998 and has also continued
to exhibit in Australia where she was the recipient of a coveted
prize for oil painting in the prestigious national juried exhibition,
The A.M.E. Bale Art Awards, known as Australia's premier awards
for traditional realism and figurative art. During her time in
Tucson AZ, she was artist in residence at Ventana Medical Systems
Inc., where she developed a number of paintings of scientists
at work and created a portrait of the founder of the company,
which now hangs permanently in the company headquarters.
Pauline is a member of
Oil Painters of America, the Portrait Society of America, The
California Art Club and the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association.
She is also a member of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists
and is a signatory member of the Victorian Artists Society. Her
work is included in the corporate collection of the Melbourne
Museum, Australia, the corporate collection of Ventana Medical
Systems Inc., Tucson and in many other collections in USA, Australia,
and Europe.
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