CV/Bio
Florence began her professional artistic life as a printmaker in the 1970's when she moved to British Columbia from Saskatchewan. She was a founding member of 'Six of One', a cooperative gallery in Vancouver and a working member of Malaspina Printmakers for many years.
After careers as a social worker and then lawyer, she was able to return to working as a full-time professional artist in 1999. For 16 years, she lived and worked on Salt Spring Island, B.C. making both 2D paintings and drawings and sculptural works in clay. She was represented by Gallery8 in Ganges, Salt Spring Island. Since 2018, she makes her art and life in Victoria, B.C and once again is represented by Gallery8 on Salt Spring Island.
Florence spends several weeks a year working and travelling in Italy with a long-time artist friend, Jamie Evrard (represented by the Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver). Her work is eclectic in subject and inspired by the natural world she encounters on her many travels and on beautiful Vancouver Island. Her favored medium is oil on canvas or mylar but she also works with watercolour, graphite and inks and pastels.
Florence's work has been purchased by private collectors across N. America and in Europe and Australia and is part of several public collections, including that of the Burnaby Art Gallery, St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation in Vancouver and Vancouver General Hospital Foundation. She exhibits regularly in solo and group exhibitions in BC and across Canada.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
MAY 17 - 30, 2018, Duthie Gallery, Salt Spring Island, B.C.
'IT NEVER RAINS ROSES'
July 1-31, 2017, Hedgerow House B&B,Ganges, B.C.
'FLORENCE ROBERGE, paintings'
Feb. 27 - Mar. 3, 2017, Bateman Gallery, Artspring, Ganges, B.C.
'NEW WORK FROM BUNBURY'
June 5 - 15, 2015, Gallery 8, Ganges, B.C.
'CHAUNTICLEER CONTINUA'
May 14-18, 2015, Studio 13 Fine Art, Vancouver, B.C.
'CHAUNTICLEER'
June 7 - 30, 2013, Gallery 8, Ganges, B.C.
‘TRANSPORTED’ (‘Il Bosco della Ragnaia')
March 26 - June 1, 2012, Calvin’s Restaurant, Ganges, B.C. (sponsored by Gallery 8)
‘RECENT PAINTINGS FROM BUNBURY STUDIO’
August, 2011, Avens Gallery, Canmore Alberta
‘IL SOGNO’
June 1-30, 2011, Artspring Art Centre, Ganges, B.C.
‘TUSCAN HARVEST’
March 1-31, 2005, Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna, B.C.
‘IMAGES FROM BUNBURY’
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Dec. 1-31,2017,2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 1012, Gallery 8, Ganges, B.C.
‘CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION OF SMALL WORKS’
April -May,2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012,Gallery 8, Ganges, B.C.
‘SYMBOLICALLY 8’, 7th 6th, 5th, 4th and 3rd Annual Artists’ Exhibit
September, 2012, Avens Gallery, Canmore Alberta
‘NEW WORKS’