Welcome to Ochre Rose Gallery & Studios
Ochre Rose is a magical, light-filled art gallery and working studio in the historic Cotton Mill Building of Asheville’s River Arts District. Founded by three women artists Amanda McLenon, Elizabeth Porritt Carrington, and Kelcey Loomer, the gallery provides a warm, welcoming home for work full of story and soul. Carrington’s flower-filled portal paintings, Loomer’s colorful narrative oils, and McLenon’s large-scale bird paintings with gold and silver leaf all draw on nature and folklore, and together they reveal threads of connection that run through the three bodies of work.
Featured Artists
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Kelcey Loomer
Loomer’s artwork is an invitation into a world where memory, folklore, and imagination converge. Drawing from a deep sense of place, her narrative works are rooted in storytelling—a passion shaped by a lifelong love of picture books and novels. At the core of her work is an exploration of belonging. She approaches her mark making with an intuitive process that welcomes uncertainty and discovery, resulting in work that leaves space for unforeseen connections and mystery.
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Amanda McLenon
Amanda is a fine art painter with a soft, glowing style focusing on dramatic light. Her scientific background informs her depictions of nature, but the emotional elements of her paintings bring them to life. Amanda creates large-scale oil paintings inspired by preening birds, light, and a reverence for the natural world, often incorporating 23-karat gold, copper, and silver leaf through the process of metal gilding. Her paintings are expressive, luminous, and full of unique design elements.
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Elizabeth Porritt Carrington
Elizabeth’s eco-contemplative art practice invites us to reestablish our relationship with the cycles of life and their home in the natural world. Through an interplay of nature, mythology, ecology, and a deep interest in the human story, her art is the expression of an ongoing conversation with the Earth. Elizabeth works with earth paints, pigments, acrylics, watercolor as well as new media, making paintings, drawings, video sketchbooks and soundscapes.
Selected Works
“Jade Plant” | Kelcey Loomer
“The Lovers” | Amanda McLenon
“Golden Dawn” | Elizabeth Porritt Carrington
“A Love Returned in Full” | Kelcey Loomer
“Gathering the Light”
Amanda McLenon
“Macalla” | Elizabeth Porritt Carrington
A Growing Space for Community & Creative Education: Art Workshops and Painting Classes in Asheville
In the near future, Ochre Rose Gallery & Studios will be offering creative workshops & painting classes.
Our goal is to create a community-based way to connect with fine art in Asheville, not only via exhibitions, but also through hands-on creative experiences and learning.