Doris Auxier

Doris Auxier (b. 1952) makes paintings, drawings and installations that for the last fifteen years have focused on fragile and protected ecosystems in British Columbia, Canada. Her interest has been on revealing the interior qualities, which are so often obscured and unnoticed, by focusing on the surface qualities of beauty, power and charisma. Her latest work picks up threads from earlier works that touch on primal loneliness and what it means to become truly human. She states, “In The Four Loves C.S. Lewis talks about our whole being and identifies its very nature as being: one vast need, incomplete, preparatory, empty yet cluttered, crying out to Him who can untie things that are now knotted together and tie up things that are still dangling loose.” Auxier is Associate Professor of Art and Design at the School of the Arts, Media and Culture (SAMC) at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.