Marian Leven

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Overview

Marian Leven RSA is a painter, printmaker and designer. Born in Auchtermuchty, Fife, she studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen. Her practice centres around the experience of living by the sea and the changeability of coastal locations. She is the recipient of many awards including the Noble Grossart, Scotland on Sunday Painting Prize. She lives and works in Tayport with her husband, artist Will Maclean RSA.

"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."

Source (RSA Acadamicians website)

 

Cruinneachadh Hulabhaig

Artwork aquired for the Hulabhaig Collection of Island Contemporaray Art

 

Black Weather, Garybhard

2025
28 x 24cm

Postcard from Garybhard 5

2025
11 x 15cm

An Sùileachan

2016
40 x 30cm

Cloud Shadow, Garybhard

2016
42 x 30cm

 

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Artist Biography

Marian Leven was born in 1944 and is originally from Auchtermuchty in Fife, Scotland. She studied Textile arts at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, from 1962 to 1966 and now works in various art media including painting in watercolour, oils and acrylic, printmaking, sculpture, land art and collage. She has a family tradition of weaving. Her work often focusses on the Scottish landscape, weather and social history, although some pieces are abstract.

She has been Artist-in-residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Skye and was a member of the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society and has also showed works at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and with the Society of Aberdeen Artists.

She has created public art jointly with Will Maclean: the sculpture Waterlines at the University of Aberdeen and the land art and land raid work An Suileachan on the Isle of Lewis.

She was awarded the Noble Grossart prize in 1997. She and Will Maclean were awarded the Saltire Society's Award for Arts and Craft in Architecture in 2013 for An Suileachan.

She has work in the collection of the Verdant Works and also exhibited in the 2002 exhibition Beyond Conflict.

She convened the RSA Annual Exhibition in 2017 and has also worked as an art teacher and lecturer.

Source (Wikipedia)