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

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