Marlene Lowden primarily works in oil and creates large expressive paintings on canvas. After several years in television broadcasting, she resumed her lifelong interest in painting, drawing, and photography. She draws from her experience in television and video production, applying to canvas similar principles of composition and storytelling. While working and raising her two daughters, she studied with a range of instructors learning watercolour, acrylic, and oil painting techniques.
Marlene is a proud alumni of Thrive Art Studios, an international collective of female artists. For over 2 years, she exhibited an homage series of 32 works to Canadian female artists called “Blind Contour Homage.” The exhibition travelled to 7 public galleries in British Columbia. In 2021 she was named one of “28 contemporary Canadian artists to know” by Create! Magazine. She is honoured to be included in the All She Makes curated artist directory, the 4th Edition of their magazine and in Art Seen Magazine based in the U.K. Recently Saatchi Art selected her as 1 of 24 artists to collect in 2024. She lives and works in her hometown of Gibsons, BC Canada.
Facilitator & teacher
Marlene is also a facilitator and yoga teacher. Along with with painter Marleen Vermeulen, she co-hosted an annual art and yoga retreat called Open Your Art in Spain. She has published an adult colouring book called Outside Your Lines. Marlene enjoys sharing her philosophy of art making and reaches out to her community by offering demos and as an instructor in schools and at festivals. She worked in partnership with Place des Arts in British Columbia and Art Girl Rising to produce videos to encourage people to create art at home during the early months of the pandemic. She recently taught an Exhibition course at the Vancouver Film School and also offers in person and online courses and retreats. The latest creative adventure was in Morocco in the fall of 2023. Join her newsletter to learn about upcoming adventures both in BC and abroad.
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MARLENE LOWDEN
b. 1969, Princeton, BC
Lives and works in Gibsons, BC Canada
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
| 2025 2025 2024 2023 2023 2023 2022 2022 2021 2021 2021 2021 2020 2020 2019 2019 2017 2016 2016 2015 2014 | The Artist Project, Toronto, Ontario THIS Gallery, “HARDedge” Group Show, Vancouver, BC The Ferry Building Gallery, “Is this too frivolous?” West Vancouver, BC Sea of Small Change, Group Show curated by Pennylane Shen, BC The Hearth Gallery, Bowen Island, BC Group show, Strange Attractors The Kube, Gibsons, BC Roaring Artist Gallery, Virtual exhibition, Audacity Group show The George Gallery, Vancouver, BC Group show The Hearth Gallery, Bowen Island, BC Group show Island Mountain Arts Centre, Wells, BC, Blind Contour Homage Series Summerland Art Centre, Summerland, BC, Blind Contour Homage Series The Hearth Gallery, Bowen Island, BC, Blind Contour Homage Series Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC, Blind Contour Homage Series Place des Arts, Coquitlam BC, Blind Contour Homage Series Revelstoke Arts Centre, BC, Blind Contour Homage Series Gibsons Public Art Gallery “States of Art: Play and Process” Group show Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Online finalist curated by Artsy The Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver, BC Seymour Art Gallery, Deep Cove, BC, “Line” Group Show Sechelt Arts Festival, The Story of Cedar, Group Show, Sechelt, BC Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC |
EDUCATION
| 1998 1990 | University of British Columbia, Continuing Studies – General Arts British Columbia Institute of Technology, Broadcast Television |
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS & PRESS
| 2024 2024 2022 2022 2021 2018 2018 | Featured in United Women Art Magazine, USA Saatchi Art, Selected as 1 of 24 to Collect in 2024 Featured in Art Seen Magazine by The Curator’s Salon Featured in All She Makes Magazine (4th edition) Alicia Puig, “28 Contemporary Canadian Artists You Need to Know About,” Create! Magazine (Blog Oct 12, 2021). Sechelt Hospital Foundation Vancouver General Hospital Foundation |
FACILITATOR
| 2025 2025 2025 2025 2025 2024 2023 2023 2022 2021 2021 2020 2020 2018 2016 2013- | Peace River Chapter, Canadian Federation of Artists, Instructor The Ferry Building Gallery, Instructor Vernon Summer School of the Arts, Instructor Gibsons School of Arts, Instructor Mastrius Mentor, Calgary, Alberta Vernon Summer School of the Arts, Instructor Vancouver Film School, Exhibition Instructor Art Retreat host, Morocco Adjudicator for Place des Arts 2023 art exhibitions Gibsons School of Arts, Instructor North Shore Artists Guild, Instructor Art Girl Rising – artgirlrising.com / instructional art video Place des Arts, Pilot Program – 5 instructional art videos Thrive Art Studios, Mastermind facilitator Open Your Art Retreat with Marleen Vermeulen, Spain – 4 Annual retreats Art Workshops – SD#46, Opus, GPAG, Community Services |
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