Marian Leven
'My painting is concerned with Scottish landscape and seascape, an expression of the harmony, balance and emotional interaction I experience through remembered, mythical and historic associations. The land, sea and weather absorb me. Images for my paintings are collected in the landscape and in the studio the recollection moves into interpretation and metaphor. My painting allows me to respond to this environment in the knowledge that I am part of a long history of people shaped by these conditions.'
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Educated Auchtermuchty Primary and Bell Baxter Senior Secondary Schools, Fife
1962-66 Grays School of Art, Aberdeen.
1966-67 Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh
1992 Elected Member of Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
1999 Lecturer in Constructed Textiles, Duncan of Jordanstone, University of Dundee
2001 Painting Lecturer, Glenrothes College, Fife
2002-08 Visiting Lecturer Fine Art, Taigh Chearsabhagh, UHI, Lochmaddy
2002 Artist in Residence, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle of Skye.
2004 Elected Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy.
2008 Elected Royal Scottish Academician
Collaborative Projects Marian Leven and Will Maclean
2011-12 Waterlines sculpture, University of Aberdeen Sir Duncan Rice Library
2010-2013 Suileachan Land Art/sculpture, Reef, Isle of Lewis
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions include
2014 The Power of the Sea, RWA Bristol
2014 Pittemweem Art Fesival, invited artist.
2014 Summer Exhibition, Kilmorak Galery, Beauly
2013 RGI Annual Exhibition, Invited Artist, Glasgow
2013 Waterlines Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen
2012 Scottish Connections, Galerie Herold, Hamburg
2012 Seeing In a Wider Sense. FCA&C, a dialogue with art and anthropology, St. Andrews Museum
2012 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Invited artist, Burlington House, London
2012 RSW Summer Exhibition The Maclaurin Art Galleries, Ayr
2011 VAS Annual Exhibition, Invited Artist, RSA, Edinburgh
2011 North Light, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2011 Poetry Beyond Text, Poetry Library, Edinburgh
2011 Poetry Beyond Text, VRC, Dundee Contemporary Art
2010 Winter Exhibition, Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie.
2010 The Summer Exhibition, The Fleming Collection, London
2010 Highlands and Islands: Painting and Poetry, The Fleming Collection
2010 Abstract The Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh.
2010 Watercolours AWI, Sydney, Australia.
2009/2010 The Coast Road Diaries, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh and touring.
2009 Fragments and Traces, The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Towards The Shore, An Tobar, Mull
2001 Towards The Shore, Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist
2000 Towards The Shore, An Lanntiar, Stornoway
1998 Recent Works, The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Awards and Prizes
2013 Saltire Society Award, Arts and Crafts in Architecture, An Suleachan Isle of Lewis
2004 RSW Council Award, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
2002 Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio Prize, Dundee Print Open.
2002 John Gray Award, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
2001 Creative and Technical Skills Bursary, DCA Print Studio/ Scottish Arts Council.
1997 Winner, Noble Grossart/ Scotland on Sunday Painting Prize.
1996 Dundee Open Prize.
1996 The Mabel Mackenlay Award, Royal Glasgow Institute.
1995 The May Marshall Brown Award, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
1991/93 Laing Landscape Prizes
Publications and References Include
Windows to the West,
Fragments and Traces, The Open Eye, Edinburgh
Scottish Connections, Galerie Herold, Hamburg.
An Leabhar Mor, Proiseact Nan Ealan
Revisioning Highland Art, Jennie Renton, Textualities.
Poetry Beyond Text, University of Dundee.
Images of Fife, Fife Council
The Grace of The Birch, The Nature of Healing. Edited by Dr Lindsay Blair.
The Curious Eye, Royal Scottish Academy
Prima Materia Robert Slingsby
Corporate and Public Collections include
University of Dundee Fine Art Collection.
University of St Andrews Collection.
Aberdeen University Collection.
Fleming –Wyfold Collection, London.
Sabhl Mor Ostaig, University of the Highlands and Islands.
Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery.
Royal Scottish Academy Collection.
Royal Scottish Academy Diploma Collection.
Demarco European Art Foundation Archive.