Marian Leven (1944 – )

Biography: Marian Leven (RSA RSW) studied Textile Arts at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen (1962 -1966) and now works in various art media including painting in watercolour, oils and acrylic, printmaking, sculpture, land art and collage. Her work often focusses on the Scottish landscape, weather and social history, although some pieces are abstract.
Leven has been Artist-in-residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Skye. She 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.
Leven was awarded the Noble Grossart prize in 1997. She and Maclean were awarded the Saltire Society’s Award for Arts and Craft in Architecture in 2013 for An Suileachan.