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Fault Line
Dry marks and warm colour bands create a landscape that feels discovered rather than described.
Artist / Mixed media
William Roche
Expressive abstract works built from layered colour, found textures, landscape memory, and the restless marks left by making.
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My work
A small edit of current pieces showing William's movement between abstracted landscapes, tactile collage, and atmospheric colour fields. Each painting now has its own page for a closer look.
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Paper Mountain
Collaged text and saturated pigment turn a simple horizon into something tactile and storied.
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Night Garden
Deep green movement and repeated white marks hover between night sky, water, and bloom.
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Ridge Study
Corrugated texture breaks through the surface, giving the piece a sculptural presence.
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Green Weather
Soft horizontal shifts suggest weather moving over water without settling into literal scene.
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Afterimage
Transparent colour and loose gesture leave a trace that feels both delicate and immediate.
Latest paintings
New work
A fresh group of recent paintings moving through water, shoreline memory, patterned surfaces, and more direct figurative signs.
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Harbour Heart
A soft pink heart form floats inside a painted frame of sea blue and green, holding tenderness inside a coastal window.
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Tidal Sweep
Broad teal, grey, and dark strokes rush across the surface like water, wind, and direction arriving at once.
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Blossom Road
Pink blossom marks and a winding pale path sit over warm ochre, turning landscape into memory and movement.
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Quiet Crossing
A restrained drawing of water, horizon, and a single rising form gives the series a spare, reflective pause.
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Blue Shore House
A quiet house, mountain shapes, and cool lake colour create one of William's most recognisably landscape-led recent pieces.
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Yellow Signal
A gold silhouette presses against green and teal movement, half figure and half sign, surrounded by repeated marks.
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Rain Garden
Magenta drips fall into a field of white and orange ovals, suggesting weather, seeds, and a surface coming alive.
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Pale Orchard
Washed blues, pale verticals, and clusters of red and dark circles create a delicate field of pattern and trace.
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Tide Window
A block of intense blue cuts across a small framed landscape, creating the feeling of a view almost submerged.
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Blue Flight
Layered blue strokes and dark wing-like marks build a charged surface between sea, sky, and movement.
Artist statement
The work sits between remembered place and the physical evidence of making.
William Roche works through colour, pressure, torn paper, pattern, and layered surface. The pieces often begin with a landscape impulse, but the finished works stay open: part map, part weather, part memory.
Edges, scratches, repeated marks, and exposed materials are left visible so each piece carries the pace of its own construction.
More about WilliamCollections
Browse by thread
The portfolio now has a clearer structure for exploring latest paintings, landscape memory, abstract movement, symbolic forms, and print editions.
Latest paintings
New studio works led by blue movement, shoreline atmosphere, direct symbols, and repeated marks.
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A more gallery-like route through William's work, grouping paintings by visual and emotional thread.
Browse collectionsStudio notes
Short reflections connecting painting, recovery, poetry, and the weekly Breaking Back extracts.
Read notesGiclée fine art prints
My work is now available to explore as digital fine art prints.
Giclée describes digital prints intended as fine art and produced by inkjet printers. William's work can be presented as print editions for enquiry.
View printsSubstack / Weekly extracts
William is sharing the story of Breaking Back chapter by chapter.
Follow the Substack for weekly extracts from each chapter, alongside the site pages for the book, chapter structure, and studio notes.
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Book / Memoir / Recovery
Breaking Back
The Story of William Roche. A sober, personal account of one night in San Francisco, the years of recovery that followed, and the art that helped William find a way back.
Read about the bookProcess
How pieces take shape
Each work is treated as a built surface, with decisions made through layering, erasure, pressure, and response.
Layer
Colour, paper, and texture are built up until a surface starts to hold depth and tension.
Reveal
Scraping, tearing, and dry marks bring earlier decisions back into view.
Resolve
The final composition holds when material, image, and atmosphere start to speak at once.
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