Marion Harding

Marion Harding - Artist

Welcome!

Please browse through the site and click on the links below to watch a new video series which is currently being compiled for a documentary film. Also have a look at the new book below: 'Marion Harding - People, Places and Events'.

The 'Sacred Series' is now complete and can be viewed on Gallery 5 and purchased through the Saatchi Saleroom Online. You can also E-mail or telephone Marion directly (see Contact Page for details).

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.

Valle Giulia At Dawn

Presented to Pope John Paul II in 2001

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, France and notable collections throughout North America.

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.

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 for exhibition in memory of her late mother Anastasia entitled The Anastasia Hours.

Marion's work can now also be viewed online at the SAATCHI Gallery. Please click on the painting below to go directly into the SAATCHI Online Gallery:

The Messenger of the Covenant

'Sacred Series'

'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 'Sacred Series' was begun in 2007 and each large canvas focuses on a particular text from Old and New Biblical Testaments. The paintings are all 91cms x 121 cms and composed of acrylic and resin on canvas apart from one which is oil. The entire series comprises 8 works in total and was completed during the summer, 2008.

Marion Harding - People, Places and Events

258 pages comprising relevant articles published by PediaPress

Click on the link below to download a draft copy of the new book minus index, full references, image sources, licenses and contributors. 6.74 MB PDF.

For a complete and published copy please contact Marion directly.

click here to download file

Royal Art of Benin

The Perls Collection

Marion's husband was related to the Perls family and this wonderful edition of the family collection (donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York) can be purchased through most good bookstores and online booksellers.

Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ISBN:9780810964143): Kate Ezra: Books.

Marion Harding

'My painting becomes more and more "transparent", perhaps? More crystalline, in any case. Let's hope it can tell us more about what none of us knows about ourselves.'

Paul-Emile Borduas and Les Automatistes

Portrait of Isabella

Acrylic on Canvas - 80 Cms X 80 Cms

Click on the icon or this link to watch the interview 'Portrait' on YouTube.

The Sun Stood Still

First of the 'Sacred Series'

Click here or on the above picture for the new video: 'The Sun Stood Still'.

Gaelic Reel

Acrylic and Manuscript on Canvas (31cms x 41 cms)

Click here or on the above painting to enjoy the latest video 'Finnegans Wake'.