After graduating from the Royal Academy Schools with a post graduate degree in Fine Art, Joan Roche lectured in art and exhibited her work widely, both here and abroad.
Joan Roche's subject matter is primarily landscape and the figure, with much of her current work influenced by the sea, landscape and surrounding architecture of the Burton's St. Leonards area of St. Leonards-on-Sea. 'A concern for process is a central feature of my work, the journey from observation through to completion, giving the work its unique structure'. Joan Roche