Discover the artwork, inspirations and creative process of Ian James Roche through features and stories.
Oct 19, 2026
The November 2025 Artist Talk feature traces the personal and artistic influences behind Roche’s large-scale pastel paintings on sheetrock.
Rebecca Padgett’s Elevate profile connects Roche’s Long Island studio practice with childhood drawing, family influence, music and spiritual expression.
In Artistcloseup, Roche describes working in short bursts, returning to works in progress and allowing line and colour to develop through intuition.
A June 2026 competition milestone offers a way into Ian James Roche’s large-scale pastel paintings, intuitive process and Long Island studio practice.
A credited artwork in the January 2026 issue of Beyond Words invites a closer look at colour, composition and the meeting of visual art and poetry.
The July 2025 cover of The Scene brings Ian James Roche’s artwork into a publishing setting, offering a new way to look at colour, rhythm and scale.
Art Seen’s Winter 2025 feature pairs two of Ian James Roche’s pastel paintings with a concise account of intuition, material and spiritual expression.
The January 2025 Dan’s Papers feature revisits the first large pastel painting that helped Ian James Roche recognise his creative voice.
Oliver Peterson’s interview explores the literary inspiration, 2017 eclipse and material choices behind Ian James Roche’s Intimacy Eclipso.
Oct 8, 2026
Quarter-finalist in Johnny Depp's 2026 People's Artist Competition.
How visual art communicates what language cannot.
Covering technique, inspiration, and the future of pastel art.
