Marlene Lowden

Marlene Lowden primarily works in oil and creates large expressive paintings on canvas. She grew up in an oceanside rural town outside of Vancouver, Canada. After several years in television broadcasting, she resumed her lifelong interest in painting, drawing, and photography. She draws from her experience in 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 now a painter and facilitator. She is a proud alumni of Thrive Art Studios, an international collective of female artists. 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. In 2021, she was named one of 28 contemporary Canadian artists to know by Create Magazine and is honoured to be included in the All She Makes curated artist directory and the 4th Edition of their magazine. Her work was also featured in Art Seen magazine published by the Curator’s Salon in the UK. She lives and works in her hometown of Gibsons, BC Canada.

Selected Exhibitions

2023 Sea of Small Change, Group Show curated by Pennylane Shen, Granville Island BC

2023 The Hearth Gallery, Bowen Island, B.C. Group show, Strange Attractors

2023 The Kube, Gibsons, B.C.

2022 Roaring Artist Gallery, Virtual exhibition, Audacity Group show

2022 The George Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Group show

2021 The Hearth Gallery, Bowen Island, B.C. Group show

2021 Island Mountain Arts Centre, Wells, B.C., Blind Contour Homage Series

2021 Summerland Art Centre, Summerland, B.C. Blind Contour Homage Series

2021 The Hearth Gallery, Bowen Island, B.C. Blind Contour Homage Series

2020 Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, B.C. Blind Contour Homage Series

2020 Place des Arts, Coquitlam B.C., Blind Contour Homage Series

2019 Revelstoke Arts Centre, Blind Contour Homage Series

2019 Gibsons Public Art Gallery “States of Art: Play and Process” Group show

2017 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Online finalist curated by Artsy

2016 The Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver, B.C.

2016 Seymour Art Gallery, Deep Cove, B.C. "Line" Group Show

2015 Sechelt Arts Festival, The Story of Cedar, Group Show, Sechelt, B.C.

2014 Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, B.C.