Viridiana Roche

I paint what is invisible to the eye.

My work explores the inner landscapes of the human psyche through figurative painting, symbolism, mythology and archetypal imagery. I am interested in the moments in which identity begins to dissolve or transform—grief, awakening, uncertainty, confrontation with the shadow, and the search for meaning.

Dreams, meditation, mythology and psychological experience often become the starting points for my paintings. Rather than illustrating these experiences literally, I construct symbolic worlds in which figures, animals and recurring archetypes become carriers of emotions and states of consciousness that are difficult to express through language.

Through color, light and atmosphere, I seek to create images that feel both intimate and universal. My work is ultimately an exploration of what exists beneath the identities we construct: the unseen forces that shape us, transform us, and connect individual experience to something archetypal and timeless.