Artist Information
Attribution
Doris Marie Roe (1896-1972)Role
PainterDate made
n.d.Time Period
20th CenturyNotes
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born in Croydon, South London, England, Doris Marie Roe (née Waydelin) was an amateur British-Canadian artist. A veteran of the Land Army* in World War I, she and her sister worked their way around the world after peace was declared in 1918 for some five years. She ultimately settled on Vancouver island - Port Alberni, Sproat Lake and Victoria c. 1930, later living in nearby Cadboro Bay with her husband Dr. Frank Gilbert Roe.
Roe was an adventurer, reportedly traveling around the world three times at different periods of her life, and crossing the Atlantic many times. She exhibited her artwork in the B.C. Artists exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1945, 1946, and 1947. She died in Victoria at the age of 76.
*The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organization created by the Board of Agriculture during WWI to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military. Disbanded in 1919, it was revived in 1939 under the same name to again organize new workers to replace those who served in the military during WWII.