Materese Roche:
Classically trained in highly representational art, Materese understands and considers all of the technical aspects of painting one learns as a student, yet in her work there is a luminosity that is impossible to teach. Her decidedly crisp and technical still life's seem in direct contrast to her atmosheric whispery landscapes. Materese's abstract paintings are the result of a creative experiment.
To Materese, it is not about painting the still life as she sees it or capturing the meadow at a specifilc moment, instead her interests lie in the essence of these subjects. She is fascinated by the minutiae of angles, as well as the contrasts between between the clarity and blur of nature. She seeks to incorporate all of her senses into her paintings; the feeling of air on her skin, the smell of salt air, the quiet in her studio, and it is this integration that makes her work distinct.
Materese has received many prestigious awards for her oil paintings.
