Alexandra Laroche
(1963-)

French painter
Lives and works in Paris

Alexandra began her career as a model maker; creative and eclectic, she soon took up painting on porcelain and began creating ephemeral decorations as well as interior design in Milan.

At the same time, she drew from her experiences in Africa, on the shores of the Mediterranean in Marseille and in Italy, where she developed her painting of colours and materials.

Alexandra first practised on her own before joining Jean Arcelin’s studio, then Edgar Salien’s, after a break to treat her multiple sclerosis.

Her work is a plunge into images that illustrate evanescent memories that she paints with a knife. She paints her emotions, often translating them into subtle, colourful mise en abyme in which the notion of time disappears. Here, there are no curves, lines or absolute tones; she plays with distances and colours to suggest the meaning of the paintings, which she leaves us free to interpret.

She has taken part in exhibitions in France and abroad, and her work can be found in many private collections.