ARTIST STATEMENT

I am passionate about exploring colour and texture in my paintings. The power and life force of the natural world inspires my work.

Painting from life or en plein air is my preference because of the the sensual pleasure of seeing, smelling, feeling and hearing the scene. It is my way of interacting with nature. I have planted hundreds of flowers on our rural property for subject matter. I have stepped beyond the flower garden to paint the wildness in the Nova Scotian landscape on Brier Island, the Bay of Fundy and in the ragged edges of fields and woods.
While my inspiration comes from the natural world around me, I am excited by colourist painters who take their work to the edge of abstraction.

I primarily paint with fluid acrylics but I also use oil sticks, watercolours and printmaking tools.

BIOGRAPHY

Flora Doehler graduated from the Art Centre at Central Technical School, Toronto in the 70’s with a focus on printmaking and weaving. She studied painting at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee in Berlin, Germany where she was influenced by the work of the German Expressionist movement.

Flora moved to the artist community of Bear River, Nova Scotia in 2007 where her studio is part of the Bear River Artists Studio Trail.

Flora is a member of the Annapolis Regional Community Arts Council (ARCAC) and Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS).

Representation:
Bear River Artworks Gallery, Bear River
The Teichert Gallery,  Halifax
Green Willow Studio, Bear River (home studio)

Seasonal Representation:
The Flight of Fancy,  Bear River
Bear River Artworks Gallery,  Bear River