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.
Pauline’s 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 Who’s Who
in America and Who’s 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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