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| Marion Harding |
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Marion is the only child of a Russian mother and Irish father. Her parents came to Canada in 1925, with so many others, because of problems in their native lands.They settled in central Canada, the Prairie heartland, and began their lives afresh.
Marion was born in 1937 in Manitoba, Canada. She grew up speaking Russian and English and naturally absorbed the North American multi-cultural environment during her childhood. Following school she qualified as a nurse, painting as time permitted. During the 1960's she moved to London, England where she married a German descendant of Catherine the Great and later a British lawyer.
It was actually through her first husband that Marion came into contact with Pablo Picasso and spent a summer at Nimes going to bull-fights. Through him also she became a model for the British painter H. Andrew Freeth, R.A. who had become reknowned for his famous portraits of Somerset Maugham and Yeats as well as winning the prestigious Prix de Rome. Later, she was painted by the Hungarian artist Arthur Pan who had achieved fame for his superlative portrait of Sir Winston Churchill. Through her first husband, Ernst Blumberg, she met his uncle Hugo Perls of the Perls Galleries who was a very helpful influence.
After raising a family, she has two grown-up children, she completed a degree in art and then followed up with curatorial work before finally being able to devote herself to full-time painting. Many of those who have collected her work find it not only ironic that her life has always been interwined with art over the last few decades, in different roles, but also that much of her past experience as a model and her personal knowledge of several celebrated artists comes through within her work.
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Marion is a graduate of the University of Victoria, Canada and has been strongly influenced by the philosophy and works of Paul-Emile Borduas. The inescapable influence on her work however is music which she interprets into visual terms. Often using the actual musical scores as collage within the paintings themselves.
Her works convey a sensual synergy with sound transposed into physical reality. Marion has developed her very original concepts from extensive study and travel abroad and has been successfully part of a number of shows in Canada. Her works are in private collections in Italy, Germany, Korea, Ireland, England and notable collections throughout North America.
Marion uses many of the musical manuscripts that she collects in her works and is now broadening this technique to include the same collage process with Medieval art.
Marion is currently working on a series of 24 paintings in memory of her late mother Anastasia entitled 'The Anastasia Hours' as well as a new series of musical instruments on wood panels. |
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The Sun Stood Still
2007 Acrylic and Resin on Canvas 91 X 121 |
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'The Sun Stood Still' is a visual representation of the scene from the Book of Joshua where the sun is commanded to stand still so that a battle may be won. |
The Canticle of Mary
2007 91 x 121 |
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Acrylic and Resin on Canvas - 'The Canticle of Mary' is based upon a New Testament Scriptural reference from Luke, 1 where Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth, who is also pregnant, and the two women rejoice. |
The Messenger Of The Covenant
2008 91cms x 121 cms |
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Acrylic and resin on Canvas - 'The Messenger Of The Covenant' - the messenger is Elijah referred to in Malachi, 3:1 and these words are quoted by Christ as referring to John the Baptist in Matthew 11:10, who prepared the way for the coming of the Saviour. |
The Fig Tree
2008 91 x 121 |
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'The Fig Tree' draws upon references comprising: Zechariah 3: 10 and Matthew 24: 32-35. The tree represents not only a protective entity in the former but also a nuturing in the latter which ultimately comforts and stengthens. |
The Wings Of Dawn
2008 91cms x 121 cms |
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'The Wings Of Dawn' is based upon King David's appeal to God in Psalm 139. Here he asks God to know him as he accounts for what he feels might not be divine thoughts yet axiomatically must be given God was well aware of him from his conception. |
The Potter's Vessel
2008 91cms x 121 cms |
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'The Potter's Vessel' implies a portrayal of God as a potter molding man's body out of clay. There is a play on words here between the Hebrew word adam "man" and adama "ground". Being: literally, "soul". The Scriptural references are Genesis 2,7 and Jeremiah 18,1-4 where the lesson implied is that God does not deal arbitrarily with his people but that he is almighty with the power to destroy or restore, accordingly as they disobey him or fulfill his plans. The thread is further extrapolated in Romans 9, 21-24. |
The Song of the Sword
2008 91cms x 121cms |
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'The Song of the Sword' can be found in Zechariah 13: 7- 9 and is elaborated upon in the New Testament by the evangelist in Matthew 26, 31. Both references lead up to and illustrate the words of Christ shortly prior to his arrest in the Garden of Olives and the flight of the Apostles. The work is acrylic and ink on canvas. |
The Flying Scroll
2008 91 X 121 |
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'The Flying Scroll' represents the enormous scroll referred to in Zechariah, 5:1-5. The dimensions of the scriptural scroll are those of the portico to Solomon's temple and contains a list of maledictions on sinners. The work further alludes to the scroll of Revelation, 5: 1-5 which is a papyrus scroll in God's right hand with seven seals indicating the importance of the message. Upon the painting is embedded the Holy name of God; Tetragrammaton - YHWH. |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
Exhibitions
2006 Urban Rhythms - Sopa Fine Arts Gallery, Canada
2006 Re-Opening - Hambleton Gallery, Canada
2005 Over Time - Kelowna Art Gallery
2005 Pass the Torch - St. Augustine's School Auctions
2004 'Relate' Exhibition - Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kelowna
2004 'Women Souls and Persons' - Kelowna Art Gallery
2004 Kelowna Art Gallery (work donated to people who lost homes in the 2003 fire)
2004 New Westminster Arts Council Gallery ('Inspired by Music' exhibition)
2004 Kelowna Art Gallery, Canada ('Looking Back' exhibition)
2003 Vertigo Gallery, Vernon, Canada ('smallWONDERS' exhibition)
2003 Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, Canada ('More than Decor' exhibition)
2003 Vernon Public Art Gallery ('Small Matters' exhibition)
2003 Cascata Gallery, Vancouver
2002 Cascata Gallery, Vancouver
2002 Momentum, Group, Vancouver
2000 - 2002 Romanov Gallery, Vancouver
1999 Janisch-Williams Piano House, Vancouver
1998 Art for Lovers, Group, Yale Gallery, Vancouver
1997 Musical Visuals, Duo exhibit, Lewarne Galleries, Vancouver
1997 Browser, Artropolis 97, Vancouver
1997 Overture, Private solo exhibition, Vancouver
1993 Group, Igor Okos Art Gallery, Kelowna
1993 Fine Arts Degree Exhibition, Group, Okanagan University College, Kelowna
1992 Three Quarter Time, Group, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna
1992 Summer Exhibition, Group, Kelowna Public Gallery, Kelowna
1992 First Night, Group, Kelowna Theatre, Kelowna
1991 Members Exhibition, Okanagan Artists Alternative, Kelowna
1991 Legacy of Visions, Group, Okanagan University College, Kelowna
Related Experience
Curatorial 1993 - 1995 Shepard Gallery, Whistler
1996 Oktavia Gallery, Vancouver
1995 - 1997 Freelance curator.
1998 - 2000 Sopel-Romanov Gallery, Vancouver
2000 - 2002 Romanov Gallery, Vancouver
2003 Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
Music in the Mountains Whistler
1993 - 1997 5 Summer sessions conducting Color and Sound
workshops with young music finalists in the master
classes presented by the Whistler Centre for Business and the Arts of which renowned pianist, Jane Coop, was the program director.
Video
1997 David Vaisbord Productions Music in the Mountains
Prints
2004 'Foundations' - work exhibited at the Kelowna Gallery in the Reflections of the Okanagan Mountain Park Fire exhibition and reproduced in a special edition of 20 by print maker and photographer Scott August.
In 2001 an exquisite painting of Marion's, Valle Giulia at Dawn was presented to His Holiness Pope John Paul II in Vatican City, Rome. Her works are also part of other notable collections throughout the world.
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| 未来的展览 |
November 3 - December 9 (2006)
'Retread' Exhibition
ALTERNATOR GALLERY
Kelowna, Canada.
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