Born in Montreal, Audrey Capel Doray received a BFA degree from McGill, and then studied under William Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris and at the Central School of Art in London.
She moved to Vancouver in 1957, where she taught at the Vancouver School of Art from 1959 to 1961. She joined the New Design Gallery in 1962.
By 1967 her transparent plastic kinetic-audio-light sculptures were featured in Arts Canada and received critical acclaim across North America. In the early seventies Capel Doray moved into experimental filmmaking.
By 1989 she and her artist husband Victor Doray became firmly committed to helping environmental causes. They have participated in the Stein, Carmanah and Tsitika valley art projects.
Capel Doray has received four Canada Council awards. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections around the world.
Core Burst 39/75
Audrey Capel Doray
Etched copper plates
12 x 9 in.
Value: $210.00
Rental per month: $5.00
Audrey Capel Doray finds great personal satisfaction in contributing to a cause she firmly believes in. Wildlife Rescue is a significant aspect of her major priorities in trying to preserve the quality of the environment. Her work acknowledges the urgency surrounding survival of the planet.
The artist’s intention in Core Burst is to convey the strength within nature, whether it be the bursting of the inner core of a volcano or the delicacy of a plant breaking into flower. As with most of her work, she prefers such ambiguity.
She tried to choose the etching technique that best serves the image. Technical play with the proposed image is important and she enjoys the challenges of etching. These include breaking down the image into a series of copper plates and working out the colour and inks for hand-wiping of the plates.
Three copper plates. Orange and blue were printed together on Plate1 followed by red on Plate 2 and dark green on the final plate. The light blue and dark green were etched using Xerox toner. Image size is 12” by 9” (30 cm by 23 cm).