Early Paintings

Early works by John Rocheleau include urban landscape paintings, paintings of children, and art influenced by old masters such as Rembrandt, Titian, Vermeer, De Hooch, Hals, and other artists who prioritized meaning and interpretation over content or subject. These early works are some of the very first paintings that John Rocheleau produced. The canvas immediately below is John's version of a Rembrandt painting. It is absolutely his very first oil painting. There were no practice pieces. The smell of linseed oil and pigment, and his feelings about people, seemed to call him to create oil paintings that expressed life as he saw and experienced it. These were his first efforts. The artistic theme begun in these early oil paintings was further explored on canvas in the works shown on the Street Scenes page.