Grainne Roche studied Fine Art Painting at Limerick Collegeof Art and Design and qualified in 1992. She later qualified as an Art Teacher and is currently Head of Art at St. Andrew’s School in Woking, Surrey. Grainne paints a variety of subject matter, from architectural and busy street scenes to seascapes and interiors.
Grainne’s paintings are raw and atmospheric, heavily layered acrylics are scraped back, and overlaid with more bright pigment to produce deeply textured surfaces of broken colour. The texture looks weathered, fraught and worn like the corner of a kitchen cupboardor a skiff on the beach. Nevertheless, the effect created is dream-like and nostalgic, like memories filtered through the intervening years.
