Eleanor Croteau-LaBranche

Eleanor Croteau-LaBranche (b. 1990, Manchester, NH) makes paintings and collages about nature, transformation, and light. She often uses surrealism, spiritual experiences, and poetry as inspiration for her work. Croteau-LaBranche grew up in Southern New Hampshire and made a home in Manchester with her husband in 2019. She teaches Visual Art full time to Elementary aged students in Exeter, NH and is a mother to an energetic toddler. She grew up with a single father as her primary parental figure and she has come to see her art practice as a nurturing and encouraging mother figure that has helped instill a deep understanding of her creative voice and self-worth.

Croteau-LaBranche holds a BFA from The New Hampshire Institute of Art. She has exhibited work on the New Hampshire Seacoast at Art Up Front Street and Anahata Gallery in Exeter, NH.

Eleanor’s work was featured in ‘Group Effort,’ on view August 10-September 1, 2024.

“This work combines the vibrant spontaneity of gelli-printing with the meticulous detail of paper cutting to create a hand-made collage that invites viewers to explore profound universal questions; suggesting that the answers we seek are found not by looking outwards, but by turning inwards.”

“My layered-paper painting “Waiting on the Edge of Everything” presents a flower as a multi-dimensional being straddling the planes of dark and light, or life and death.”

Eleanor’s work was featured in ‘Critical Mass,’ on view August 12-27, 2023.

Eleanor Croteau-LaBranche