Welcome. This site is ever changing so please check in every now and again to see updates on my work, collections, and community involvement.  For now, feel free to scroll down or click one of the links at the top to explore my site. To enlarge the images, please click on them to expand.

A short video interview about my process and approach to art, featured in Camellia Art Gallery’s Art News blog. View the full post here.

Currently exhibiting at Camellia Gallery

 

Bird Land. 2021. Mixed Media on Canvas. 48 x 48”

 
 

"There is a communion of spirit between an intimate glance towards a gesture, event, or place and the process of documenting this relationship on paper or canvas."

 

May River Opus.

If you are interested in Commissions, please feel free to contact
Louanne LaRoche.

Time Out

Time Out

Currently exhibiting at Piccolo Spoleto

Sitting on the dock
of the Bay. 2019. Mixed Media on canvas. 48 x 60”

       Louanne LaRoche is a documentarian at heart and has been a resident of the Lowcountry for over 40 years.  Her private studio is located on the May River near the historic town of Bluffton, SC.  Her vibrant paintings depict variety through subject and size. Friends have said that Louanne's paintings are an "eruption of her wonderful spirit that simply spills out onto the canvas."

     In addition, her interests focus on collecting Outsider art, American Illustrators, American Impressionists, regional,  African,  tribal,  and anonymous artwork. Her efforts as collector and curator of the work of Sam Doyle and other Southern folk artists have led to Louanne LaRoche being recognized internationally along with her own artwork.

      LaRoche has brought her own distinctive vision of the Lowcountry by combining the freedom of expression with the strength of representation. She stresses the importance of community and her role to observe and document the intimate connections that occur in everyday interactions. 

Team Effort

Mullet Fishing, 2019, Mixed Media on Linen,
24 x 30”

Bus Stop

Bus Stop, Private Collection

Sunday at the Beach III Private Collection

Sunday at the Beach III
Private Collection

“LaRoche's artwork reflects a significant sense of her  community and her response to these connections as they are being lost, displaced or diminished."
- Jacob Preston

Updates

Visit the Coby Whitmore section of the website to purchase the Girl on the Savannah limited edition prints.

 
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Now Available

The book, An Intimate Gaze: Louanne LaRoche, showcases a collection of LaRoche's artwork including drawings, paintings, and prints form 1995-2019. Purchase a copy today in either Hardback, Softcover, or PDF.

Purchase the Book

 
 

View Danielle De Mers artwork, archived and available to view in the new section:
Danielle De Mers
Purchase a copy of the book,
Danielle De Mers: Works on Paper
today in either Hardback, Softcover, or PDF.
Click on the highlighted titles to be directed to the pages.