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

 

Selected Exhibitions

2024 Tidelines, Royal Scottish Academy

2021 Christmas Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy

2019 Our Infinite Land, Royal Scottish Academy

2016 Scottish Artists Inspired by the Sea, Kilmorack Gallery

2016 The Curious Eye II, Royal Scottish Academy

2015 Scottish Drawings, Royal Scottish Academy

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 Tuirreann, Portree

2000 Towards the Shore, An Lanntiar, Stornoway

1998 Recent Works, The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

1996 Recent Scottish Watercolours, The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh RSA, RGI, RSW, SSA, AAS, Annual Exhibitions

2008 Coast, Open Eye Gallery. Edinburgh.

2008 RSA Highland Exhibition, An Lanntair, Stornoway.

2007 Highland 2007, RSA, Edinburgh

2007 Preview Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

2005 RSA Festival Connections   Edinburgh.

2005 Mixed Doubles, Art First, London.

2005 Marian Leven and Anna King. Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen.

2005 Glasgow Art Fair, Gallery Heinzel

2004 New Associates Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

2004 Academicians and The Demarco Archive, RSA, Edinburgh.

2004 Shared Space, Marian Leven and Will Maclean, Compass Gallery, Glasgow

2004 Summer Exhibitions, The Plockton Gallery, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen.

2004 The Directors Chair 2, Chosen by Clara Young. Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.

2002/04 Starting a Collection, Art First, London

2003 Journeys, DCA Exhibition, Discovery Point, Dundee

2003 New Faces, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen

2003 40 Years On, Demarco. City Arts Centre, Edinburgh

2003 Festival of The Sea. Demarco European Foundation, Leith

2002-04 An Leabhar Mor, The Great Book of Gaelic Exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow and Cannongate Publication. Touring Canada, U.S.A., Ireland and U.K.

2002 Work in Progress, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts

2002 Dundee Print Open, Duncan of Jordanstone and Abertay University

2002 Traces, Print Exhibition, R. K. Burt Gallery, London

2001 Beyond Conflict, The Demarco European Art Foundation Touring Exhibition

2001 The Poster Show, Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York and Cabinet Gallery, London

2000 70/20000, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh

1999 Contemporary Scottish Drawing, Frames, Perth

1999 Seascapes, Maritime Museum, Vittoriosa, Malta

1999 Escape, The Highland Landscape, art. tm, Inverness

1998 The Singer Freidlander/ Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

1998 Christmas Exhibition, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

1996/97 The Noble Grossart/ Scotland on Sunday Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and Glasgow School of Art

1994/96 Dundee Open, McManus Galleries, Dundee

1991-97 Morrison Portraits, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

1993 Art in Bloom, Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery

1990 Laing Landscapes, Talbot Rice, Edinburgh and Mall Galleries, London

1989 Scottish Contemporary Art, Clare Hall, Cambridge

1977 Land and Sea, The Stirling Gallery

1997-99 Images of Fife, Pittencrieff House, Kirkcaldy Art Gallery, St Andrews Museum

1969 Works On Paper, 57 Gallery, Edinburgh

1969 Fife Group Show, Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery

1967 Two Artists, Loomshop Gallery, Lower Largo.

 

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

 

Awards

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.

 

Collections

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, Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Glen Lockhart Knitwear, British Transport Hotels, Fife Arts and Theatre Trust, Fife Council, East Lothian Health Trust

Paintings in Hospitals, Art in Healthcare, The Stewart Group, Aberdeen, New Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow.