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.

“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