Elena Roché, Biography of a California Artist
Elena Roché
California Plein Air Painter and Wildlife Artist
I was born in Vilnius, today’s Lithuania, in 1975, then it was part of the USSR. I am of Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian and Polish ancestry. I was raised in a city near Moscow. In 1997 I graduated from The Russia School of Applied Art in Moscow. I received The title Master Artist of Embroidery Fashion Design. My five-year long education included the full training in academic art starting with advanced still life and concluding with figure in the interior. My teachers were trained by the Russian masters and often quoted their art advice to me. Immediately after graduating, I left Russia for California where I got married, raised and homeschooled my five children and slowly perfected my art skills and developed my personal plein air palette. Today my works are recognized among the works of the world’s top plein air painters.
