 Grainne Roche was born in Wexford, Ireland on 16th May 1973; she studied Fine Art Painting at Limerick College of Art and Design and qualified in 1992. Grainne later qualified as an Art Teacher and is currently teaching in Woking. Mother of two sons, Grainne lives in Surrey but frequently travels to Ireland, where she also gets inspiration for her work.
Grainne paints a variety of subject matter; from the bustling streets in Irish towns, to the energy and drama of a fairground scene. From childhood memories of days at the beach, to old, rusty fishing boats tied up along a quayside.
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; the effect created is dream-like and nostalgic, like memories filtered through the intervening years.
Although Grainne has always painted, her first and successful Solo Artist Exhibition was in April 2008 in the Pig Yard Gallery in Wexford, Ireland. Grainne also participated in Art in the Open 2008 in Ireland and was an invited artist in Art in the Open 2009. She was also accepted into the Society of Women Artists Exhibition 2009 at the Mall Galleries, London.
Exhibitions
Currently Exhibiting, White Gallery, Dorking
Woking Society of Art April 2012
Solo Exhibition RT Gallery, Reigate, November 2011
• Untitled Art Fair, Chelsea, London June 2011
• Runnymede Open Art Exhibition, Windsor March 2011
• Carysfort Gallery, Wexford Opera Festival Oct 2010
• Carysfort Gallery, Kilkenny Art Fair August 2010
• Carysfort Gallery, Wexford Opera Festival Oct 2009
• Carysfort Gallery, Kilkenny Art Fair August 2009
• Art in the Open Competition, Pigyard Gallery Wexford August 2009
• Mall Galleries, London, Society of Women Artists April 2009
• Art in the Open Competition, Pigyard Gallery Wexford August 2008
• Solo Artist Exhibition, Pigyard Gallery, Wexford, Ireland April 2008
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Size: 31.50" x 23.60"
Price: £500.00
