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Vale was introduced to the world of visual art by her husband, Dutch-born artist Albert Jacques Franck, who painted views of Toronto backyards and houses.
In the late 1940s, Vale began to experiment with her husband's paints and brushes. In contrast to Franck's paintings of urban scenes, Vale's subjects were often imaginative and even imaginary.
Together, Franck and Vale were a part of the Gerrard Street bohemian circle and their Victorian home on Hazelton Avenue in Toronto became a centre for young artists, CBC personalities, writers, musicians, and critics. Vale was thus exposed to a wide variety of artistic influences.
Vale's increasing interest in the simplification of form and surface texture led to her exploration of collage where she used abstract shapes and austere compositions. In 1980, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre organized "Metamorphosis - Memories, Dreams and Reflections - The Work of Florence Vale", the first major retrospective of her work.
